WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.880 Actually nine. 00:00:05.060 --> 00:00:06.560 Let me just open in prayer. 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:14.320 Heavenly Father, we thank you for your word. 00:00:15.220 --> 00:00:17.260 We thank you for the privilege of prayer. 00:00:17.500 --> 00:00:26.260 We thank you that we have at the ready full copies of your word in our homes, 00:00:26.260 --> 00:00:33.859 many of us in our pockets, in many, many, many rooms of our homes in many cases. 00:00:34.420 --> 00:00:38.140 Lord, you have made your word in this day so accessible. 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:44.480 We confess that we don't always love your word the way we ought to. 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:48.799 We don't always pay close attention to it. 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:51.079 We don't always heed your word. 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:58.859 Lord, we come to you needy and in need of your spirit to help us and to teach us. 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:04.379 Lord, form in us hearts that love your word as the psalmist loved your word. 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:09.560 Form in us minds that are able to meditate deeply on your word 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:12.759 and to retain your word in our hearts and minds. 00:01:13.879 --> 00:01:15.459 Lord, we commit this time to you. 00:01:15.659 --> 00:01:17.980 We thank you for, just thank you for it. 00:01:17.980 --> 00:01:21.820 And we thank you, too, that we're not needing to wear masks. 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:24.159 It's great to see full faces. 00:01:25.380 --> 00:01:26.880 We thank you for all these things. 00:01:27.020 --> 00:01:28.420 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:37.680 There are handouts here. 00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:37.719 There are handouts here. 00:01:47.980 --> 00:01:54.020 So today we're going to talk about biblical meditation and memorization. 00:01:54.219 --> 00:01:57.200 We'll spend a lot more time on meditation than memorization. 00:01:58.740 --> 00:02:00.340 That's a warning. 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:08.800 We'll talk just briefly about what biblical meditation is not. 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:13.100 And I think most of us recognize this. 00:02:13.100 --> 00:02:18.439 But it's not about emptying our minds or making our minds passive 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:25.439 or just letting the words flow over us. 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:38.520 It's not, in our modern context, it's often taken as like a, yeah, 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:44.719 like a letting go and a letting, just letting your thoughts go empty, 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:46.579 like trying to empty your head of thoughts. 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:48.199 That's not what we're going for at all. 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:49.919 That fact is quite the opposite. 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:54.159 We want to be filling our minds with God's word. 00:02:55.619 --> 00:03:02.560 So it is, this is how Donald Whitney defines it. 00:03:03.679 --> 00:03:07.979 Deep thinking on the truths and spiritual realities revealed in scripture 00:03:07.979 --> 00:03:12.359 for the purpose of understanding, application, and prayer. 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:21.460 He uses an analogy of, you're making tea, hot tea. 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:22.580 You have a tea bag. 00:03:23.700 --> 00:03:24.820 You have your hot water. 00:03:25.460 --> 00:03:28.040 And I have a friend who kind of makes tea this way 00:03:28.040 --> 00:03:30.820 because she likes it very weak and she just kind of dips it in. 00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:32.600 And she doesn't leave it for long. 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:35.280 She just pulls it out again and she's good. 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:43.159 But that's what, probably hearing the word of God, 00:03:43.259 --> 00:03:48.780 maybe read in a service or hearing it, is often just like that. 00:03:48.900 --> 00:03:49.900 And there's nothing wrong with that. 00:03:49.939 --> 00:03:52.580 It's a good thing, as we talked about last week. 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.879 Others might dip it several times, right? 00:03:58.180 --> 00:04:00.020 At the tea bag in their hot water. 00:04:00.620 --> 00:04:03.240 And you can see that the tea's getting a little stronger. 00:04:03.400 --> 00:04:04.580 It gets a little darker, right? 00:04:04.580 --> 00:04:06.660 If it's that kind of tea and it's dark. 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:09.500 And that's like reading, right? 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:11.440 We read passages of scripture. 00:04:11.440 --> 00:04:12.660 We're taking it in. 00:04:15.920 --> 00:04:20.819 Meditation, in that analogy, is like putting that tea bag in, 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:25.620 maybe swirling it around, maybe re-dipping it a few times, 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:27.699 but leaving it in there to soak, right? 00:04:27.699 --> 00:04:32.220 And we get the strongest tea possible when we do that. 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:35.280 So that's what we're looking at with meditation. 00:04:35.460 --> 00:04:42.160 We're really going to focus in on a very small portion of our reading, 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:43.600 a very small portion of scripture. 00:04:44.460 --> 00:04:51.060 We're going to roll it over in our minds multiple times. 00:04:51.060 --> 00:04:54.300 We're going to get to a place where we think, 00:04:54.379 --> 00:04:58.220 I understand this verse, but we're not going to leave it there. 00:04:58.319 --> 00:04:59.680 We're going to push harder. 00:05:00.220 --> 00:05:02.420 What else can I see here? 00:05:02.860 --> 00:05:03.500 What else? 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:06.420 And we want it to be prayerful, 00:05:06.860 --> 00:05:09.579 because the Holy Spirit is, 00:05:09.840 --> 00:05:10.560 he's our teacher, 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:15.459 and we want to invite him to show us what he would show us. 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:16.819 And we want to, 00:05:17.060 --> 00:05:19.879 we're going to talk more about this in the next couple of weeks 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:20.899 when we talk about prayer. 00:05:21.339 --> 00:05:23.319 But often in my meditation, 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:28.879 I'm turning the things that I'm seeing into prayer as I meditate. 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.060 So, you know, I'll come to something, 00:05:32.139 --> 00:05:33.860 I might be convicted of something, 00:05:33.860 --> 00:05:37.080 and I'm going to take that right away 00:05:37.080 --> 00:05:38.060 and take it to the Lord 00:05:38.060 --> 00:05:41.080 and confess my sin 00:05:41.080 --> 00:05:42.759 and ask for forgiveness. 00:05:43.939 --> 00:05:46.240 Then I'll go back to the scripture, 00:05:46.900 --> 00:05:47.860 look at it more. 00:05:48.300 --> 00:05:51.600 I might be learning more about how I got into this sin 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:53.699 or what its effects have been, 00:05:53.780 --> 00:05:54.699 my relationships, 00:05:55.040 --> 00:05:55.639 or I, you know, 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.000 totally depends on what you're meditating on. 00:05:58.060 --> 00:05:59.439 That's not always going to be the case. 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:03.360 But we're going to spend, 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:04.420 and when we're meditating, 00:06:04.580 --> 00:06:07.420 we're spending a sustained amount of time 00:06:07.420 --> 00:06:09.580 on a small portion of scripture 00:06:09.580 --> 00:06:10.439 without, 00:06:10.840 --> 00:06:14.500 yeah, without dropping that and letting it go. 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:15.540 At some point, 00:06:15.939 --> 00:06:17.420 you can move on, right? 00:06:18.819 --> 00:06:20.120 Obviously, we're not, you know, 00:06:20.180 --> 00:06:21.740 going to every day meditate 00:06:21.740 --> 00:06:23.420 on the same three words of scripture, 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:26.120 although there may well be fruit from that. 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:28.220 The scriptures are just so rich. 00:06:29.480 --> 00:06:31.500 Other times, you know, 00:06:31.500 --> 00:06:34.019 we're just not going to spend that much time. 00:06:35.019 --> 00:06:37.000 And that's the nature of scripture. 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:38.160 It's all God's word. 00:06:38.860 --> 00:06:43.379 But it's not all equally applicable to our lives 00:06:43.379 --> 00:06:45.399 at particular times, right? 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:50.540 So let's talk a little bit about why we want to do this. 00:06:50.540 --> 00:06:54.040 In Joshua 1.8, 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:57.319 the author writes, 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:00.500 this book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.420 speaking to Joshua, 00:07:03.060 --> 00:07:06.160 but you shall meditate on it day and night 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:09.100 so that you may be careful to do 00:07:09.100 --> 00:07:11.220 according to all that is written in it. 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.580 For then you will make your way prosperous, 00:07:13.939 --> 00:07:16.060 and then you will have good success. 00:07:16.060 --> 00:07:20.660 So the book of the law shall not depart from your mouth. 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:22.800 You know, I think of how 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.540 we're maybe in a conversation, 00:07:25.819 --> 00:07:27.899 we're trying to say something, 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:29.519 you know, it's just, it's that name, 00:07:29.579 --> 00:07:30.879 it's on the tip of my tongue, right? 00:07:31.819 --> 00:07:33.879 You know, would that we had scripture like that 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:35.319 on the tip of our tongues, right? 00:07:35.379 --> 00:07:35.899 Just ready. 00:07:37.899 --> 00:07:39.319 Meditating on it day and night. 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:47.019 Now, we, none of us can sit down 8 a.m. in the morning 00:07:47.019 --> 00:07:48.079 and start meditating 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:50.939 and not quit until 8 a.m. the next day, okay? 00:07:51.500 --> 00:07:53.360 We're not actually meditating 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.860 in this active way day and night, 00:07:56.019 --> 00:07:57.560 but we might be meditating 00:07:57.560 --> 00:07:59.519 at all different times of the day. 00:08:00.180 --> 00:08:01.100 We might be, 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:04.719 we might have a focus time perhaps in the morning, 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:07.260 and then as we go through our day, 00:08:07.420 --> 00:08:07.820 we might, 00:08:08.760 --> 00:08:10.960 that verse might be recalled to our mind. 00:08:11.080 --> 00:08:13.480 We might be thinking about it for a little bit. 00:08:14.820 --> 00:08:16.580 And as we go to bed, 00:08:16.660 --> 00:08:17.900 maybe we're thinking about the, 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.000 maybe we're thinking about the same verse. 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.400 And I think the acknowledgement that 00:08:24.400 --> 00:08:26.760 it doesn't have to be you're sitting down 00:08:26.760 --> 00:08:30.820 in your chair where you have your devotions 00:08:30.820 --> 00:08:31.640 and doing this. 00:08:31.639 --> 00:08:35.100 It can be anywhere you are. 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:37.240 It can be while driving. 00:08:37.379 --> 00:08:38.419 A lot of times I will, 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.059 I will ponder a verse while I'm driving. 00:08:41.500 --> 00:08:42.220 It can be, 00:08:42.539 --> 00:08:43.919 as many people have said, 00:08:43.980 --> 00:08:45.100 when you wake up in the night 00:08:45.100 --> 00:08:46.279 and you can't get back to sleep, 00:08:46.699 --> 00:08:48.039 you got something to chew on, 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:49.779 so much the better. 00:08:49.939 --> 00:08:50.199 That's, 00:08:50.460 --> 00:08:51.840 that'll be profitable, 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:53.899 more profitable probably 00:08:53.899 --> 00:08:55.399 than tossing and turning 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:56.980 and being irritated. 00:08:56.980 --> 00:09:00.080 So, 00:09:00.580 --> 00:09:02.139 and so the, 00:09:02.139 --> 00:09:04.039 the outcome of this in this verse, 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:06.259 so that you may be careful to do 00:09:06.259 --> 00:09:07.940 according to all that is written in it. 00:09:08.259 --> 00:09:10.379 So it's not enough to just ruminate it 00:09:10.379 --> 00:09:11.000 on our heads, 00:09:11.060 --> 00:09:11.200 right? 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:12.300 We want to apply it. 00:09:12.379 --> 00:09:14.639 We want to heed the word of God. 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:15.700 We want it, 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:17.379 not just up here, 00:09:17.779 --> 00:09:19.039 but we want it in our hearts. 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:21.539 We want it where we can live it out. 00:09:24.039 --> 00:09:26.059 And then that last sentence, 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:27.639 for then you will make your way prosperous, 00:09:27.740 --> 00:09:28.959 then you will have good success. 00:09:29.139 --> 00:09:30.579 I think we need to think about 00:09:30.579 --> 00:09:32.819 prosperity and success 00:09:32.819 --> 00:09:35.459 in this context as God's view. 00:09:35.719 --> 00:09:37.860 What is God's view of prosperity and success? 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:40.559 It may not be our view. 00:09:40.639 --> 00:09:42.159 It may not be the view of the world. 00:09:42.519 --> 00:09:44.559 Probably isn't the view of the world. 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.519 But there's a, 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:49.599 there's a flourishing of a spiritual life. 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:50.519 I think that's, 00:09:50.699 --> 00:09:52.239 that's a good way to think about this. 00:09:52.339 --> 00:09:52.959 This is the, 00:09:54.379 --> 00:09:55.899 this is one of the ways 00:09:55.899 --> 00:09:57.559 that the word becomes part of us 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:01.759 and we become more and more like God. 00:10:01.979 --> 00:10:04.219 And if you recall from the first class, 00:10:04.319 --> 00:10:06.799 we do these things for the purpose of godliness. 00:10:07.079 --> 00:10:10.339 We do them to grow in our relationship to God 00:10:10.339 --> 00:10:11.799 and to become more like him. 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:13.919 So these are, 00:10:14.099 --> 00:10:15.139 these are some of the, 00:10:15.199 --> 00:10:16.259 some of the outcomes. 00:10:18.939 --> 00:10:20.399 In Psalm one, 00:10:20.479 --> 00:10:21.299 one to three, 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.919 blessed is the man who walks 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:25.319 not in the counsel of the wicked, 00:10:25.319 --> 00:10:27.199 nor stands in the way of sinners, 00:10:27.479 --> 00:10:29.620 nor sits in the seat of scoffers, 00:10:29.799 --> 00:10:32.699 but his delight is in the law of the Lord. 00:10:32.819 --> 00:10:33.759 And on his law, 00:10:33.859 --> 00:10:36.039 he meditates day and night. 00:10:36.620 --> 00:10:39.359 He is like a tree planted by streams of water 00:10:39.359 --> 00:10:41.299 that yields its fruit in its season. 00:10:41.299 --> 00:10:43.199 And its leaf does not wither. 00:10:43.299 --> 00:10:44.339 In all that he does, 00:10:44.419 --> 00:10:45.199 he prospers. 00:10:45.899 --> 00:10:49.000 So very similar to the verse in Joshua, right? 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:49.259 And, 00:10:49.339 --> 00:10:52.699 and when you see things repeated like this in scripture, 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:53.539 you know, 00:10:53.559 --> 00:10:54.679 you might stop and think, 00:10:54.779 --> 00:10:54.959 well, 00:10:55.059 --> 00:10:56.319 maybe this is important, 00:10:56.599 --> 00:10:56.859 right? 00:10:57.579 --> 00:10:58.299 And this is, 00:10:58.399 --> 00:10:59.159 it's very similar. 00:10:59.259 --> 00:10:59.859 He delights, 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.019 his delight is in the law of the Lord 00:11:02.019 --> 00:11:03.819 and he meditates day and night. 00:11:03.979 --> 00:11:05.979 So we talked about with the Joshua verse 00:11:05.979 --> 00:11:08.979 and then this picture of flourishing, 00:11:09.179 --> 00:11:09.419 right? 00:11:09.419 --> 00:11:11.799 He's like a tree planted by streams of water 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.019 and fruitfulness here, 00:11:14.019 --> 00:11:15.059 uh, 00:11:16.059 --> 00:11:17.899 that yields its fruit in its season. 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:22.879 So as the word of God becomes part of our minds 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:23.860 and our hearts, 00:11:23.860 --> 00:11:27.019 we become more fruitful for the kingdom. 00:11:27.479 --> 00:11:28.039 Um, 00:11:28.179 --> 00:11:29.240 that may look different, 00:11:29.699 --> 00:11:30.719 that will look different, 00:11:30.719 --> 00:11:31.099 uh, 00:11:31.099 --> 00:11:32.719 for different people in different times 00:11:32.719 --> 00:11:33.620 and different seasons. 00:11:33.620 --> 00:11:34.700 Um, 00:11:35.100 --> 00:11:35.519 but it, 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:35.919 but again, 00:11:35.940 --> 00:11:37.379 it's that flourishing of the, 00:11:37.539 --> 00:11:38.919 of the spiritual life. 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:40.320 Um, 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:42.659 its leaf does not wither in all that he does, 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:43.299 he prospers. 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:43.919 Once again, 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:44.259 that, 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:44.720 um, 00:11:44.899 --> 00:11:46.460 not worldly prosperity, 00:11:46.460 --> 00:11:48.340 that's not promised to us by, 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:49.000 uh, 00:11:49.259 --> 00:11:50.600 meditating on God's word, 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:51.259 but, 00:11:51.500 --> 00:11:51.860 um, 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.820 but certainly a spiritual prosperity, 00:11:54.820 --> 00:11:56.020 um, 00:11:56.020 --> 00:11:59.620 which doesn't mean we won't have seasons that are dry 00:11:59.620 --> 00:12:03.520 or difficult or where we feel distant from God. 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:03.919 Um, 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:06.960 that, 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:07.779 that happens. 00:12:07.939 --> 00:12:08.299 Uh, 00:12:08.299 --> 00:12:08.740 I think we, 00:12:08.799 --> 00:12:10.079 we know that from experience. 00:12:10.079 --> 00:12:12.539 We know that from reading lives of the saints, 00:12:12.539 --> 00:12:13.000 uh, 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:13.980 in the past and, 00:12:14.100 --> 00:12:14.939 and in the present. 00:12:15.460 --> 00:12:16.019 Um, 00:12:16.019 --> 00:12:17.159 but the general, 00:12:17.639 --> 00:12:21.519 the general result throughout our lives will be this flourishing, 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:22.840 fruit bearing, 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:24.439 obedience, 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:25.960 godliness, 00:12:26.259 --> 00:12:27.139 being like God. 00:12:28.139 --> 00:12:28.360 Uh, 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:29.179 so that's pretty good. 00:12:29.220 --> 00:12:30.519 Who doesn't want to be like that, 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:30.759 right? 00:12:30.899 --> 00:12:31.059 I mean, 00:12:31.079 --> 00:12:31.939 that's what we want. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:32.840 We want to flourish. 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:33.960 Uh, 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:35.259 we love the Lord. 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:37.600 We want to be like him. 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:40.960 We want to bear fruit for the kingdom. 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.439 We want to be sharing the word. 00:12:43.539 --> 00:12:45.639 We want to be living it out in our lives. 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:46.600 Um, 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:49.120 so this is a way to do it. 00:12:49.779 --> 00:12:50.100 Um, 00:12:51.019 --> 00:12:52.199 kind of in general, 00:12:52.199 --> 00:12:54.559 we're going to learn more as we meditate. 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.340 We're going to understand these portions of scripture better. 00:12:59.259 --> 00:12:59.340 Um, 00:13:00.220 --> 00:13:01.819 we particularly, 00:13:01.819 --> 00:13:02.799 we get to a passage. 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:04.179 We're very familiar with, 00:13:04.179 --> 00:13:06.279 and we think we've got it like, 00:13:06.839 --> 00:13:07.159 okay, 00:13:07.219 --> 00:13:07.399 I, 00:13:07.539 --> 00:13:09.039 I've read this 4 million times. 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:09.439 Like I, 00:13:09.539 --> 00:13:10.399 I understand it, 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:11.559 but sometimes we, 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:15.299 we haven't really taken the time to really look at each word, 00:13:15.299 --> 00:13:16.299 to really ponder. 00:13:16.299 --> 00:13:16.699 Um, 00:13:16.700 --> 00:13:23.520 ponder the implications or to really think about the different connections. 00:13:24.020 --> 00:13:24.560 You know, 00:13:24.560 --> 00:13:27.460 why is this verse here next to that verse? 00:13:27.660 --> 00:13:27.840 You know, 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:28.860 what is the connection? 00:13:29.860 --> 00:13:30.160 Um, 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:34.219 sometimes we're super familiar with a verse, 00:13:34.219 --> 00:13:35.639 sort of out of context, 00:13:36.379 --> 00:13:36.699 uh, 00:13:37.079 --> 00:13:37.579 John 3, 00:13:37.659 --> 00:13:38.079 16. 00:13:38.719 --> 00:13:39.600 Like right now, 00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:41.419 I can't think of what John 3, 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:42.279 15 is, 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:42.659 right? 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:44.039 Um, 00:13:44.039 --> 00:13:48.319 but if I really understand John 3, 00:13:48.419 --> 00:13:48.860 16, 00:13:48.860 --> 00:13:50.759 I'm going to have to look at John 3, 00:13:50.819 --> 00:13:51.259 15, 00:13:51.379 --> 00:13:51.599 right? 00:13:51.659 --> 00:13:52.299 And John 3, 00:13:52.379 --> 00:13:53.659 17 and the whole, 00:13:53.740 --> 00:13:55.539 the whole context of the passage. 00:13:55.539 --> 00:13:57.240 And that would be part of meditation. 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:01.039 And then we would glean more from the actual John 3, 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:01.500 16. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:02.639 Um, 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:04.000 so we're going to learn more. 00:14:05.439 --> 00:14:06.000 Uh, 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:07.379 we're going to remember better. 00:14:08.379 --> 00:14:08.980 Um, 00:14:09.019 --> 00:14:10.699 and I'm not talking here about memorization, 00:14:10.860 --> 00:14:11.919 but I'm just talking about, 00:14:12.419 --> 00:14:12.740 you know, 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:13.659 if you spend, 00:14:14.100 --> 00:14:15.740 let's just say 10 minutes, 00:14:15.740 --> 00:14:18.039 we're not necessarily talking about hours here, 00:14:18.539 --> 00:14:27.220 say 10 minutes going over and over a verse or a sentence or a phrase of scripture, 00:14:27.220 --> 00:14:32.240 we're likely to remember that sentence, 00:14:32.500 --> 00:14:33.040 a phrase, 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:34.019 um, 00:14:34.340 --> 00:14:36.160 or verse better. 00:14:36.820 --> 00:14:37.420 Um, 00:14:38.680 --> 00:14:42.680 it gives time for the Bible to seep into our hearts and minds. 00:14:42.800 --> 00:14:46.740 We'll be better able to effectively apply it. 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:48.740 The better we understand scripture, 00:14:49.180 --> 00:14:52.560 the better we're able to apply it rightly. 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:53.639 Um, 00:14:54.540 --> 00:14:57.200 we need to understand what's in front of us. 00:14:57.220 --> 00:15:01.600 In order to see how it impinges on our lives, 00:15:02.019 --> 00:15:02.180 how, 00:15:02.340 --> 00:15:04.540 what effect it should have in our lives. 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:08.160 What in this verse does godliness look like? 00:15:08.340 --> 00:15:10.040 And how does that apply to me? 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:11.899 And that takes thought. 00:15:12.680 --> 00:15:13.019 Um, 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:15.360 sometimes uncomfortable thought, 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:16.600 you know, 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:17.840 if we recognize like, 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.100 this is something I'm not doing or I'm not being, 00:15:21.340 --> 00:15:24.580 or this is a place where I frequently fail. 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:26.000 This is a place where, 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:27.480 this is a place where I struggle. 00:15:28.220 --> 00:15:28.559 Um, 00:15:29.379 --> 00:15:33.039 it's not always fun to look at those things and recognize that, 00:15:33.120 --> 00:15:38.179 but that's where we get growth in godliness is through those uncomfortable times, 00:15:38.179 --> 00:15:38.779 um, 00:15:38.980 --> 00:15:39.799 as well as the, 00:15:40.120 --> 00:15:41.639 as well as the more comfortable times. 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:46.480 So, 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:47.379 general, 00:15:47.699 --> 00:15:47.840 uh, 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:48.100 you know, 00:15:48.100 --> 00:15:48.720 I'm going to talk about, 00:15:48.860 --> 00:15:51.120 I'll talk about a bunch of hows now. 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:52.159 Um, 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:57.759 give the word of God time and attention so that seeps into our lives, 00:15:57.980 --> 00:15:59.720 into our hearts and minds. 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:01.819 Then we will be better equipped to obey it, 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:02.500 to remember it, 00:16:02.500 --> 00:16:03.659 and to apply it accurately. 00:16:03.819 --> 00:16:04.220 Basically, 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:05.179 I've said all that. 00:16:05.779 --> 00:16:06.220 Um, 00:16:06.220 --> 00:16:07.980 when we think about, 00:16:08.279 --> 00:16:08.540 uh, 00:16:09.100 --> 00:16:09.360 you know, 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:10.700 how often should we do this? 00:16:11.420 --> 00:16:11.740 Um, 00:16:12.060 --> 00:16:12.879 my professor, 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:13.560 Dr. 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:13.860 Whitney, 00:16:14.399 --> 00:16:14.820 said, 00:16:15.220 --> 00:16:15.759 every day, 00:16:16.560 --> 00:16:17.500 every day, 00:16:17.779 --> 00:16:20.379 we should be doing this. 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:21.660 And he said, 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:22.680 look, 00:16:22.700 --> 00:16:24.720 if you only have 10 minutes 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.620 in your time with the Lord, 00:16:27.820 --> 00:16:29.340 a given morning, 00:16:29.340 --> 00:16:31.300 or whatever your time is, 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:33.240 spend five of it reading, 00:16:33.660 --> 00:16:34.980 spend five of it meditating. 00:16:36.019 --> 00:16:36.500 Um, 00:16:36.540 --> 00:16:37.920 it doesn't have to be, 00:16:38.759 --> 00:16:39.379 I don't have, 00:16:39.560 --> 00:16:42.700 I don't have a half hour to sit on this verse, 00:16:42.840 --> 00:16:43.019 right? 00:16:43.180 --> 00:16:44.720 It doesn't have to be like that. 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:45.620 Um, 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:46.800 we want to, 00:16:47.100 --> 00:16:48.360 we want to do what we can. 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:49.120 Um, 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:54.340 don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, 00:16:54.460 --> 00:16:54.780 right? 00:16:54.860 --> 00:16:55.820 So don't let, 00:16:55.980 --> 00:16:59.320 I can't do it really well because I only have these five minutes, 00:16:59.340 --> 00:17:00.180 to spend on it. 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:04.059 Don't let that stop you from spending those five minutes because isn't that 00:17:04.059 --> 00:17:04.860 better than nothing? 00:17:05.579 --> 00:17:05.980 Um, 00:17:06.900 --> 00:17:08.480 and we also may find, 00:17:08.819 --> 00:17:09.100 uh, 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:13.100 obviously there are time strictures and we have busy lives and we have places 00:17:13.100 --> 00:17:15.180 we need to be and places we need to go, 00:17:15.299 --> 00:17:21.299 but you may find it really difficult at first to spend more than five minutes, 00:17:21.299 --> 00:17:23.319 but the more time you spend, 00:17:23.740 --> 00:17:27.860 the more fruitful it gets and you're going to enjoy it more. 00:17:27.859 --> 00:17:29.879 So it might be a struggle at first, 00:17:29.879 --> 00:17:32.939 but you might get into it and around minute four, 00:17:33.139 --> 00:17:33.679 you're like, 00:17:33.779 --> 00:17:35.179 this is amazing. 00:17:35.299 --> 00:17:35.579 I just, 00:17:35.779 --> 00:17:36.979 I need to keep going here, 00:17:37.199 --> 00:17:37.759 you know? 00:17:37.819 --> 00:17:38.099 And, 00:17:38.199 --> 00:17:39.339 and if you have that time, 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:39.879 you know, 00:17:39.899 --> 00:17:40.699 then it will be, 00:17:40.919 --> 00:17:41.159 uh, 00:17:41.819 --> 00:17:43.139 that will be fruitful time, 00:17:43.199 --> 00:17:43.500 right? 00:17:44.059 --> 00:17:44.479 Um, 00:17:45.539 --> 00:17:46.419 so don't, 00:17:46.419 --> 00:17:50.779 don't make it something that has to take an hour or half hour, 00:17:50.899 --> 00:17:52.899 15 minutes or any amount, 00:17:53.099 --> 00:17:53.339 right? 00:17:53.339 --> 00:17:56.799 And if you've got to run and go and get in the car and get to work or whatever 00:17:56.799 --> 00:17:57.359 like that, 00:17:57.819 --> 00:17:59.459 take that verse with you in your head, 00:17:59.859 --> 00:18:02.159 write it down and take it with you. 00:18:02.419 --> 00:18:02.559 Uh, 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:03.959 you don't have to have memorized it. 00:18:04.099 --> 00:18:07.019 You can have it on a three by five card or something like that. 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:07.959 Um, 00:18:08.439 --> 00:18:09.980 last week I showed you my little, 00:18:09.980 --> 00:18:10.480 uh, 00:18:10.599 --> 00:18:11.559 key chain of, 00:18:11.639 --> 00:18:14.220 of verses that I pray frequently in the morning. 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:17.620 Those are verses that I also meditate on frequently. 00:18:18.539 --> 00:18:18.900 Um, 00:18:19.220 --> 00:18:22.220 and I can take them with me if I don't remember them. 00:18:22.579 --> 00:18:22.900 Uh, 00:18:22.900 --> 00:18:24.819 at this point I mostly remember them. 00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:25.140 So, 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:26.120 um, 00:18:26.980 --> 00:18:27.440 yeah, 00:18:27.539 --> 00:18:30.180 so take it with you and continue to meditate. 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:32.079 If you're doing something like driving, 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:33.539 that doesn't require your full, 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:34.600 I mean, 00:18:34.620 --> 00:18:35.920 it requires your full attention, 00:18:36.120 --> 00:18:39.940 but it's a different kind of attention, 00:18:40.059 --> 00:18:40.279 right? 00:18:40.360 --> 00:18:40.660 I mean, 00:18:40.660 --> 00:18:42.420 I find it's a different kind of attention. 00:18:42.420 --> 00:18:43.140 So yes, 00:18:43.140 --> 00:18:44.059 don't crash. 00:18:44.220 --> 00:18:45.120 Because you're meditating. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:46.240 Um, 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:47.519 that would be bad. 00:18:48.700 --> 00:18:49.180 Uh, 00:18:49.360 --> 00:18:49.900 so that's, 00:18:50.180 --> 00:18:50.440 yes. 00:18:50.579 --> 00:18:50.799 Okay. 00:18:50.839 --> 00:18:51.539 That was frequency. 00:18:52.100 --> 00:18:52.420 Um, 00:18:52.700 --> 00:18:54.539 how to choose what to meditate on. 00:18:55.100 --> 00:19:02.339 Like what I have been doing is I have a portion of scripture that I'm reading on that day because I follow a plan. 00:19:02.339 --> 00:19:03.640 So I know what I'm going to read. 00:19:04.120 --> 00:19:04.600 Um, 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:06.700 even if it's an informal plan. 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:07.799 Um, 00:19:08.860 --> 00:19:12.160 and then I'm going to choose something there, 00:19:12.420 --> 00:19:13.940 something in that passage. 00:19:14.220 --> 00:19:21.579 That has stood out to me or that has perked my interest or that has confused me or that, 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:22.380 you know, 00:19:22.420 --> 00:19:23.660 any number of things. 00:19:23.660 --> 00:19:26.620 I'm going to choose something from that reading most days. 00:19:27.319 --> 00:19:27.720 Um, 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:29.660 and that just makes sense. 00:19:29.660 --> 00:19:29.819 Um, 00:19:29.819 --> 00:19:29.940 and that just makes sense. 00:19:29.940 --> 00:19:35.079 We're going to understand all what we're reading better if we also meditate on it. 00:19:35.079 --> 00:19:36.279 Now we might not, 00:19:37.059 --> 00:19:37.379 don't, 00:19:37.460 --> 00:19:42.119 don't imagine yourself meditating on a whole chapter because that would take hours, 00:19:42.240 --> 00:19:42.500 right? 00:19:42.500 --> 00:19:45.400 But maybe a verse, 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:46.279 maybe a phrase, 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:47.039 maybe even, 00:19:47.140 --> 00:19:47.619 you know, 00:19:47.660 --> 00:19:48.480 a concept, 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:49.359 um, 00:19:49.940 --> 00:19:51.720 that comes out of that passage. 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:53.079 like in a narrative. 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:55.940 So you're reading through the gospels in a narrative. 00:19:55.940 --> 00:19:57.759 You might not have a single verse. 00:19:57.900 --> 00:19:58.259 You might, 00:19:58.860 --> 00:20:02.200 but you might not have a single verse because maybe it's a story. 00:20:02.720 --> 00:20:04.140 Maybe you want to spend some time. 00:20:04.259 --> 00:20:13.799 You've read the parable of the lost son and you want to spend some time thinking about the different characters or choose one character. 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:15.579 What does this tell me about God? 00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:16.919 Um, 00:20:17.220 --> 00:20:17.859 if God, 00:20:18.220 --> 00:20:18.619 uh, 00:20:19.879 --> 00:20:21.759 if the father in that, 00:20:21.859 --> 00:20:23.339 in that story of the prodigal son, 00:20:23.399 --> 00:20:24.919 if the father represents God, 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:26.579 what am I learning about God there? 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:29.319 And just go over and over. 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:30.259 I find, 00:20:30.339 --> 00:20:30.740 uh, 00:20:30.740 --> 00:20:32.799 writing things down to be helpful in this. 00:20:32.919 --> 00:20:34.559 It holds my attention better. 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:35.879 Um, 00:20:36.159 --> 00:20:37.319 and just sort of, 00:20:38.099 --> 00:20:38.240 yeah, 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:39.599 sort of focuses me better. 00:20:40.399 --> 00:20:40.839 Um, 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:41.960 because the mind, 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:42.980 as we all know, 00:20:43.039 --> 00:20:43.619 can wander. 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:44.519 Um, 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:45.680 and that to me, 00:20:45.740 --> 00:20:48.480 writing it down sort of tethers it to something, 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:49.000 um, 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:50.799 and helps me not to wander, 00:20:51.339 --> 00:20:51.639 um, 00:20:51.659 --> 00:20:54.599 as much because I'm actively engaged, 00:20:54.700 --> 00:20:55.180 um, 00:20:55.460 --> 00:20:58.480 physically and visually and all of that. 00:20:59.379 --> 00:20:59.859 Um, 00:21:00.619 --> 00:21:01.379 you might, 00:21:01.659 --> 00:21:03.519 you might find another verse. 00:21:03.700 --> 00:21:04.059 You might, 00:21:04.159 --> 00:21:04.859 so I, 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:05.440 I, 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:06.680 I was going to bring it again, 00:21:06.740 --> 00:21:07.079 but the, 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:07.339 that, 00:21:07.339 --> 00:21:08.019 that ring of, 00:21:08.019 --> 00:21:08.299 uh, 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:09.200 um, 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:11.240 cards with verses on it that I have, 00:21:11.339 --> 00:21:11.680 I, 00:21:12.159 --> 00:21:13.180 I'll sometimes, 00:21:13.180 --> 00:21:15.700 I'll come to the morning and, 00:21:15.840 --> 00:21:17.700 and sit down. 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:22.940 I'll read my chapter and I just won't be able to focus really well on it. 00:21:23.120 --> 00:21:23.660 You know, 00:21:23.700 --> 00:21:24.860 either it just doesn't, 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:27.500 it's just not doing anything for me. 00:21:27.500 --> 00:21:27.799 You know, 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:28.319 like, 00:21:28.400 --> 00:21:28.680 which is, 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:29.319 you know, 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:31.259 that's a pretty worldly way to look at it, 00:21:31.259 --> 00:21:32.579 but it just not, 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:34.000 it's not grabbing my attention. 00:21:34.180 --> 00:21:34.680 It's not, 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:35.519 um, 00:21:35.940 --> 00:21:36.460 and I'm just, 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:37.880 I'm just not feeling, 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:39.079 I'm just not feeling it. 00:21:39.180 --> 00:21:39.440 You know, 00:21:39.500 --> 00:21:40.500 you've had days like that. 00:21:40.500 --> 00:21:41.799 I hope I'm not the only one. 00:21:42.339 --> 00:21:42.599 Um, 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:44.279 um, 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:46.200 and then sometimes I will just, 00:21:46.519 --> 00:21:56.279 I'll just pick up that little set of verses and I'll flip through and find one and just meditate on that and pray that through. 00:21:56.279 --> 00:22:01.099 And that has been really helpful for me on those days when I can't, 00:22:01.099 --> 00:22:04.279 I just can't concentrate or I just can't, 00:22:04.899 --> 00:22:05.799 I just doesn't, 00:22:05.859 --> 00:22:07.220 it's just words on the page. 00:22:07.899 --> 00:22:08.259 Um, 00:22:08.879 --> 00:22:12.940 and as I focus in on one thing that has been meaningful to me, 00:22:12.940 --> 00:22:13.960 um, 00:22:14.779 --> 00:22:15.059 you know, 00:22:15.059 --> 00:22:16.400 that may be a favorite verse. 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:18.880 It may be just a verse that spoke to you two weeks ago. 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:19.480 It may be, 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:19.820 you know, 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:21.460 any number of things. 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:22.019 Um, 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:25.120 even if it doesn't come from that day's reading, 00:22:25.420 --> 00:22:25.980 uh, 00:22:26.100 --> 00:22:29.580 can draw you in and help you to focus, 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:30.360 um, 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.580 and actually meet the Lord in that time. 00:22:33.820 --> 00:22:35.600 So that's something that I do. 00:22:35.740 --> 00:22:37.820 Sometimes I just feel like I can't even read my, 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:38.720 I'm so sleepy. 00:22:39.360 --> 00:22:39.920 Uh, 00:22:40.120 --> 00:22:42.920 I'm thinking about this problem I have coming up in the, 00:22:42.940 --> 00:22:43.279 day. 00:22:43.820 --> 00:22:46.860 I need something to really grab hold of and focus on. 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:50.299 I'll just go right to one of those verses or a verse that I'm memorizing. 00:22:51.019 --> 00:22:51.420 Um, 00:22:51.840 --> 00:22:55.320 and just focus on that because that's easier if I focus on one thing. 00:22:55.920 --> 00:22:56.299 Um, 00:22:57.580 --> 00:22:57.900 yeah. 00:22:58.340 --> 00:23:01.259 So that's how to sort of, 00:23:01.320 --> 00:23:01.600 you know, 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:02.019 that's, 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:03.460 that's one way to choose. 00:23:04.180 --> 00:23:04.640 Um, 00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:06.100 now, 00:23:06.100 --> 00:23:10.360 now the big how is what does it look like to, 00:23:10.420 --> 00:23:10.940 uh, 00:23:11.299 --> 00:23:12.940 meditate on the scripture? 00:23:12.940 --> 00:23:13.059 Sure. 00:23:14.340 --> 00:23:15.860 Now I need a handout. 00:23:20.460 --> 00:23:22.080 So that's where we come to this. 00:23:23.080 --> 00:23:24.240 So as you can see, 00:23:24.360 --> 00:23:24.779 this is, 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:26.019 this is straight from, 00:23:26.019 --> 00:23:26.700 uh, 00:23:26.980 --> 00:23:27.620 Donald Whitney. 00:23:28.380 --> 00:23:28.740 He has, 00:23:28.840 --> 00:23:31.440 he encouraged us as students to share this with people. 00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:33.500 So I feel no compunction in, 00:23:33.500 --> 00:23:33.860 uh, 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:35.000 handing it out. 00:23:35.100 --> 00:23:35.460 He said, 00:23:35.460 --> 00:23:36.200 that was great. 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:36.880 Do that, 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:37.420 um, 00:23:37.420 --> 00:23:38.960 in your local context. 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:40.039 Um, 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:40.640 so, 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:43.120 so there are 17 here. 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:43.960 Um, 00:23:44.180 --> 00:23:45.720 I'm going to walk through them, 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:46.880 uh, 00:23:46.880 --> 00:23:47.360 briefly, 00:23:47.360 --> 00:23:49.380 and then we're going to try a couple. 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:50.319 Um, 00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:51.960 so, 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:53.480 you know, 00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:54.419 as he says on the top, 00:23:54.500 --> 00:23:58.059 begin by selecting a passage for meditation from your time of reading God's word. 00:23:58.200 --> 00:24:03.460 Choose a verse or phrase that attracted your attention or a theme verse or a key verse from the passage. 00:24:03.460 --> 00:24:04.120 And again, 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:06.039 it doesn't have to be from the passage. 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:06.680 And he would, 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:08.019 he would totally agree with me. 00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:10.180 So one of the ways, 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:14.259 and I actually learned this a long time ago and have always found it really helpful, 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:16.380 is as you read it, 00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:17.900 and you can do this reading out loud, 00:24:17.980 --> 00:24:18.980 you can do it reading, 00:24:19.259 --> 00:24:19.700 reading, 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:20.360 um, 00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:21.299 in your head. 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:22.240 You can, 00:24:22.500 --> 00:24:22.960 you can, 00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:24.340 so here's his example. 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:26.880 Whatever he says to you, 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:27.420 do it. 00:24:28.299 --> 00:24:28.700 Whatever. 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:31.559 I'm going to look at that word and think, 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:33.659 what does that mean? 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:34.980 What is he, 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:35.700 what, 00:24:35.799 --> 00:24:36.679 what should I get out of that? 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:37.240 What's that? 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:37.740 Well, 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:38.159 whatever. 00:24:38.379 --> 00:24:38.599 Like, 00:24:39.019 --> 00:24:39.379 then we, 00:24:39.419 --> 00:24:40.379 we think about how, 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:40.960 whatever, 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:41.599 that's a, 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:42.159 wow, 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:42.839 that's a lot. 00:24:42.980 --> 00:24:43.879 That's a big open, 00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:46.359 you know, 00:24:46.399 --> 00:24:47.859 he says a lot of things, 00:24:47.919 --> 00:24:48.200 right? 00:24:48.619 --> 00:24:51.359 And that's what I'm supposed to do. 00:24:51.879 --> 00:24:52.159 Okay. 00:24:52.339 --> 00:24:53.079 Now this is, 00:24:53.179 --> 00:24:55.200 this is a verse like completely out of context. 00:24:55.539 --> 00:24:55.779 So, 00:24:56.379 --> 00:24:56.720 um, 00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:58.720 yeah. 00:24:58.919 --> 00:24:59.279 Anyway, 00:24:59.419 --> 00:25:00.639 I'm just using his example. 00:25:00.640 --> 00:25:02.020 Not sure it's one I, 00:25:02.080 --> 00:25:02.880 one I would have picked, 00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:03.660 uh, 00:25:03.660 --> 00:25:05.520 because it's in a particular context, 00:25:05.520 --> 00:25:06.360 but, 00:25:06.520 --> 00:25:06.820 um, 00:25:07.320 --> 00:25:08.980 but then you might look at it and go, 00:25:09.200 --> 00:25:09.460 you know, 00:25:09.500 --> 00:25:09.780 you might, 00:25:10.360 --> 00:25:14.280 so noodle over whatever for as long as that's fruitful, 00:25:14.280 --> 00:25:15.300 right? 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:15.940 When you, 00:25:16.060 --> 00:25:17.540 when you feel like you've gleaned, 00:25:17.540 --> 00:25:18.980 you know what this word means, 00:25:18.980 --> 00:25:22.960 you understand why you use that word and not another word. 00:25:23.560 --> 00:25:23.840 Um, 00:25:23.840 --> 00:25:25.300 what else could he have said? 00:25:25.360 --> 00:25:26.220 You might think about, 00:25:27.220 --> 00:25:29.180 then you go on to the next word and just say, 00:25:29.180 --> 00:25:31.940 whatever he says to you, 00:25:32.120 --> 00:25:32.660 do it. 00:25:33.779 --> 00:25:35.640 And just reading it like that, 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:37.900 I think I, 00:25:37.940 --> 00:25:39.920 I don't have to obey what everyone says. 00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:40.640 Like I'm not, 00:25:41.420 --> 00:25:41.519 I, 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:44.920 that's not actually how I live. 00:25:45.019 --> 00:25:46.380 And some of us, 00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:47.180 um, 00:25:47.400 --> 00:25:51.120 some of us are very eager to please everyone around us. 00:25:51.120 --> 00:25:51.360 Right. 00:25:51.400 --> 00:25:56.740 And we want to do whatever we want to please the person who's talking with us in that moment. 00:25:56.740 --> 00:25:57.140 Right. 00:25:57.339 --> 00:25:58.620 And that's not a bad thing, 00:25:58.620 --> 00:26:04.019 but if we then shape our lives around other people's demands on us, 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:04.740 uh, 00:26:04.740 --> 00:26:05.920 that's probably not a good thing. 00:26:06.259 --> 00:26:06.779 Um, 00:26:06.779 --> 00:26:07.339 but here, 00:26:07.579 --> 00:26:09.480 here we see whatever he says, 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:11.579 do what the Lord says. 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:12.660 Um, 00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:13.599 so anyway, 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:15.319 you just sort of go through it, 00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:16.400 uh, 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:18.240 one word at a time like that. 00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:19.299 Um, 00:26:19.299 --> 00:26:22.779 and when you get to whatever he says to you, 00:26:22.859 --> 00:26:23.620 do it. 00:26:23.619 --> 00:26:29.239 Now you might or might not have much to think about there, 00:26:29.419 --> 00:26:29.679 right? 00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:33.219 You've already talked about the whatever your thought about the whatever. 00:26:33.819 --> 00:26:34.299 Um, 00:26:35.779 --> 00:26:38.639 it is really referring back to the whatever. 00:26:38.879 --> 00:26:44.419 So you might not spend more than a few seconds on one of these words. 00:26:44.419 --> 00:26:44.759 Right. 00:26:45.219 --> 00:26:45.699 Um, 00:26:46.239 --> 00:26:47.099 and that's fine, 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:47.719 you know, 00:26:47.719 --> 00:26:49.879 but in this way you can get, 00:26:51.099 --> 00:26:51.759 you can just, 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:52.980 you'll focus in on the words. 00:26:53.099 --> 00:26:59.519 So often we read a verse and we just go to the next and we haven't really thought about what did he really say there? 00:27:00.180 --> 00:27:00.539 Um, 00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:01.879 really? 00:27:02.019 --> 00:27:02.379 Whatever? 00:27:02.700 --> 00:27:03.000 Like, 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:04.519 whatever? 00:27:04.879 --> 00:27:05.059 Yeah, 00:27:05.140 --> 00:27:05.420 you know. 00:27:05.980 --> 00:27:06.460 Um, 00:27:07.299 --> 00:27:08.799 so anyway, 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:10.319 I won't spend as much time on the others. 00:27:10.579 --> 00:27:10.900 Uh, 00:27:11.420 --> 00:27:15.160 so number two is rewrite the verse or phrase in your own words. 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:16.140 This is challenging. 00:27:16.879 --> 00:27:17.279 Um, 00:27:18.099 --> 00:27:18.940 I sort of, 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:20.259 it's challenging for me. 00:27:20.259 --> 00:27:20.539 I, 00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:20.559 I, 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:20.980 I, 00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:23.940 other people are probably find it really helpful and really, 00:27:24.059 --> 00:27:25.619 and it's not unhelpful for me, 00:27:25.900 --> 00:27:31.039 but can we synthesize what this verse means in our own language? 00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:32.079 Um, 00:27:32.259 --> 00:27:32.819 can we, 00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:33.859 yeah, 00:27:34.779 --> 00:27:35.400 um, 00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:36.379 that's, 00:27:36.460 --> 00:27:37.099 that's hard. 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:41.660 And you really have to understand the verse or the passage of the phrase or whatever we're doing. 00:27:41.779 --> 00:27:47.119 You really have to understand it well in order to be able to do that fairly and accurately. 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:47.559 Uh, 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:50.779 formulate a principle from the text. 00:27:50.919 --> 00:27:51.859 What does it teach? 00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:57.079 Think of an illustration of the text. 00:27:57.219 --> 00:27:58.039 What pictures, 00:27:59.259 --> 00:28:00.899 uh, 00:28:01.059 --> 00:28:01.379 or, 00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:02.059 yeah, 00:28:02.059 --> 00:28:03.059 it's a little typo there. 00:28:03.159 --> 00:28:04.719 What pictures explain it? 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:04.939 What, 00:28:05.479 --> 00:28:05.819 you know, 00:28:05.939 --> 00:28:08.099 how could you visualize it? 00:28:08.659 --> 00:28:10.579 What is an image that comes to your mind? 00:28:10.579 --> 00:28:11.099 Some of us, 00:28:11.139 --> 00:28:13.139 that's going to come faster than others, 00:28:13.299 --> 00:28:13.619 right? 00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:14.740 We have, 00:28:14.740 --> 00:28:15.339 uh, 00:28:15.460 --> 00:28:19.480 artistic folks who are going to perhaps think much more visually, 00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:20.359 uh, 00:28:20.359 --> 00:28:21.000 than others. 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:23.019 And this might be really fruitful, 00:28:23.019 --> 00:28:23.799 uh, 00:28:24.159 --> 00:28:25.319 to think about what, 00:28:25.399 --> 00:28:27.000 what are the pictures that come to mind? 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:29.199 How can you see it, 00:28:29.199 --> 00:28:29.980 uh, 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:30.319 in a, 00:28:30.439 --> 00:28:31.460 in a visual way? 00:28:32.740 --> 00:28:33.259 Um, 00:28:33.379 --> 00:28:35.419 look for applications of the text. 00:28:36.140 --> 00:28:38.460 What should we do in response to it? 00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:39.420 Obviously, 00:28:39.600 --> 00:28:39.720 this, 00:28:39.779 --> 00:28:42.259 this should be part of all of our reading and stuff, 00:28:42.340 --> 00:28:43.779 but to really stop and focus. 00:28:43.880 --> 00:28:44.100 Okay, 00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:45.340 what do I do with this? 00:28:45.620 --> 00:28:45.940 Um, 00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:48.080 um, 00:28:48.080 --> 00:28:53.220 ask how the text points to the law or to the gospel. 00:28:55.380 --> 00:28:56.440 Where do I see, 00:28:56.900 --> 00:28:57.740 I don't want to, 00:28:57.740 --> 00:28:59.860 I don't want to repeat because he does sort of, 00:28:59.900 --> 00:29:01.000 a lot of these sort of overlap, 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:01.640 but, 00:29:01.779 --> 00:29:02.019 um, 00:29:02.740 --> 00:29:03.000 you know, 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:04.039 where do I see Jesus? 00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:06.099 Where do I see the gospel in this text? 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:07.440 Um, 00:29:08.059 --> 00:29:09.139 and what, 00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:10.039 what, 00:29:10.180 --> 00:29:15.399 what's the demand that's out there that I can't meet because none of us can obey the law, 00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:15.659 right? 00:29:16.259 --> 00:29:16.619 Uh, 00:29:17.440 --> 00:29:20.440 how does this point to the need in my life for the gospel? 00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:21.259 Um, 00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:23.279 oh yeah, 00:29:23.299 --> 00:29:23.399 yeah, 00:29:23.399 --> 00:29:23.779 the second, 00:29:23.899 --> 00:29:24.519 the next one, 00:29:24.579 --> 00:29:26.839 how the text points to something about Jesus. 00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:28.240 Um, 00:29:29.059 --> 00:29:31.399 it's become very kind of commonplace, 00:29:31.399 --> 00:29:32.000 uh, 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:35.619 to say that all the Bible is about Jesus because, 00:29:35.779 --> 00:29:36.079 I mean, 00:29:36.140 --> 00:29:39.779 he said that to the disciples on the road to Emmaus. 00:29:40.500 --> 00:29:41.019 Um, 00:29:41.019 --> 00:29:42.599 and he said it to the Pharisees. 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:44.240 It's all about me. 00:29:44.940 --> 00:29:45.380 Um, 00:29:45.380 --> 00:29:52.420 but we're going to come to verses that we can't quite exactly relate to Jesus, 00:29:52.540 --> 00:29:52.940 right? 00:29:52.980 --> 00:29:54.940 That's going to happen and that's okay, 00:29:55.060 --> 00:29:55.300 right? 00:29:55.880 --> 00:29:59.520 But very often we're going to see a picture of Jesus. 00:29:59.520 --> 00:30:02.000 We're going to see a picture of his love. 00:30:02.060 --> 00:30:05.080 We're going to see a picture of the wrath of God. 00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:05.679 We're going to see, 00:30:05.879 --> 00:30:06.059 and the, 00:30:06.179 --> 00:30:07.039 and then the, 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:08.759 the gospel that tells us, 00:30:08.819 --> 00:30:09.419 you know, 00:30:09.419 --> 00:30:09.699 that, 00:30:09.859 --> 00:30:12.439 that we are not under wrath as we trust in Jesus. 00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:13.659 Um, 00:30:14.179 --> 00:30:16.399 so those are things to think about. 00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:19.159 And you might just like come to a verse and pick one of these things. 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:20.399 Um, 00:30:20.460 --> 00:30:23.220 and they're not all going to work well with every verse, 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:23.619 right? 00:30:24.019 --> 00:30:26.500 So how does this text point to something about Jesus? 00:30:26.500 --> 00:30:28.319 That's often really fruitful and helpful. 00:30:29.500 --> 00:30:33.019 What question is answered by this text? 00:30:33.019 --> 00:30:35.359 Is there a problem solved? 00:30:39.059 --> 00:30:40.440 Pray through the text. 00:30:40.960 --> 00:30:43.180 And we're going to talk about that in some depth, 00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:43.619 uh, 00:30:43.619 --> 00:30:44.279 in a couple of weeks. 00:30:45.220 --> 00:30:45.579 Um, 00:30:46.420 --> 00:30:47.680 memorize the text. 00:30:48.339 --> 00:30:48.859 Uh, 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:50.400 that's part of, 00:30:50.660 --> 00:30:50.980 you know, 00:30:51.059 --> 00:30:51.879 that's all part of, 00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:55.440 part of meditating is often memorization. 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:58.119 Memorization should be part of it. 00:30:58.379 --> 00:30:59.139 They should go together. 00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:00.420 Uh, 00:31:00.420 --> 00:31:02.480 create an artistic expression of the text. 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:03.620 So before we said, 00:31:03.740 --> 00:31:04.160 uh, 00:31:04.500 --> 00:31:04.740 you know, 00:31:04.740 --> 00:31:05.640 think of a picture. 00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:06.700 Well, 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:09.579 you might want to actually draw that picture out. 00:31:10.299 --> 00:31:10.700 Uh, 00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:13.380 you might be more wordy. 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:17.299 You might want to express what you've learned in a poem or a song, 00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:18.360 um, 00:31:18.360 --> 00:31:21.980 or just something that flows out of your, 00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:24.660 the creativity that God has gifted you with. 00:31:24.660 --> 00:31:27.080 All of us have been gifted with creativity. 00:31:27.380 --> 00:31:29.040 It doesn't always have to be in these forms, 00:31:29.420 --> 00:31:29.560 but, 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:30.480 um, 00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:32.759 but is there some way we can express it? 00:31:32.779 --> 00:31:33.040 Cause what, 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:34.540 if we're expressing it, 00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:36.200 especially in a way that, 00:31:36.420 --> 00:31:38.259 that God has drawn us to, 00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:38.779 right? 00:31:38.840 --> 00:31:39.360 If you're, 00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:42.400 if you're a visually artistic person, 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:43.759 if you love to look at art, 00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:46.000 if you love to draw or paint, 00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.600 or just play with colors or whatever, 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:55.240 that's a way that's going to help you in your meditation on scripture. 00:31:55.879 --> 00:31:59.099 If you can figure out a way to incorporate it. 00:31:59.819 --> 00:31:59.899 Um, 00:32:00.099 --> 00:32:01.379 and that's, 00:32:01.459 --> 00:32:01.639 again, 00:32:01.659 --> 00:32:05.119 it's going to vary from person to person and yeah. 00:32:06.579 --> 00:32:07.219 Um, 00:32:08.219 --> 00:32:09.240 number 12, 00:32:09.379 --> 00:32:10.799 ask the Philippians four, 00:32:10.959 --> 00:32:12.919 eight questions of the text. 00:32:13.359 --> 00:32:15.219 So this is taking the, 00:32:15.219 --> 00:32:16.219 the, 00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:17.460 the qualities, 00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:18.200 uh, 00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:19.940 that we're to think on, 00:32:20.120 --> 00:32:20.559 uh, 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:21.779 according to Philippians four, 00:32:21.860 --> 00:32:22.100 eight, 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:23.460 what is true, 00:32:23.819 --> 00:32:24.720 what is honorable, 00:32:24.940 --> 00:32:25.779 what is right, 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:26.980 what is pure, 00:32:27.600 --> 00:32:28.720 what is lovely, 00:32:29.180 --> 00:32:30.860 what is admirable or commendable, 00:32:31.259 --> 00:32:32.319 what is excellent, 00:32:32.600 --> 00:32:33.440 what is praiseworthy. 00:32:35.339 --> 00:32:37.220 So you could just take one of those things, 00:32:37.220 --> 00:32:38.319 um, 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:40.319 or you could take all of them and sort of, 00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:40.620 you know, 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:41.900 ponder that around, 00:32:41.900 --> 00:32:42.500 uh, 00:32:42.500 --> 00:32:43.120 your verse. 00:32:43.740 --> 00:32:44.759 Number 13, 00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:46.660 I neglected to look this up again. 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:49.299 The Joseph Hall questions. 00:32:49.980 --> 00:32:55.519 This is a guy who was not writing as a believer about biblical meditation, 00:32:55.519 --> 00:32:58.200 but he was talking about how to understand a text. 00:32:58.480 --> 00:32:59.160 All right. 00:32:59.240 --> 00:32:59.599 And, 00:33:00.259 --> 00:33:00.680 um, 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:02.779 and these are his questions. 00:33:02.779 --> 00:33:04.140 So what is it? 00:33:04.500 --> 00:33:07.839 You're going to define what this verse says, 00:33:08.019 --> 00:33:08.599 right? 00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:10.940 What are its divisions or portions? 00:33:10.940 --> 00:33:12.980 So we have this phrase and you have this phrase, 00:33:13.940 --> 00:33:14.299 you know, 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:15.140 you, 00:33:15.299 --> 00:33:16.559 if you're grammar minded, 00:33:17.019 --> 00:33:17.320 you know, 00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:17.600 you, 00:33:17.660 --> 00:33:19.880 you want to understand how the clauses fit together, 00:33:20.299 --> 00:33:21.360 divisions and parts, 00:33:21.580 --> 00:33:22.880 what causes it? 00:33:23.779 --> 00:33:25.320 What does it cause? 00:33:25.580 --> 00:33:26.200 Like what, 00:33:26.539 --> 00:33:28.299 what are the ramifications of this? 00:33:29.299 --> 00:33:29.700 Um, 00:33:29.700 --> 00:33:32.259 what is its place location or use? 00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:33.580 We might think about there, 00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:34.319 like, 00:33:34.840 --> 00:33:37.720 what is this place in scripture? 00:33:38.360 --> 00:33:39.080 What is this place? 00:33:39.140 --> 00:33:41.340 What should its place be in my life? 00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:44.559 So if you're reading like old Testament law, 00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:45.980 you want to think about, 00:33:46.660 --> 00:33:47.140 okay, 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:49.620 in its context, 00:33:49.620 --> 00:33:51.660 for the original hearers, 00:33:51.779 --> 00:33:53.080 it meant one thing, 00:33:53.080 --> 00:33:54.500 but we always want to, 00:33:54.620 --> 00:33:56.960 as believers in the new Testament, 00:33:57.080 --> 00:33:57.920 under the new covenant, 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:02.580 we always want to read the old Testament through the eyes of the new covenant, 00:34:02.900 --> 00:34:03.140 right? 00:34:03.180 --> 00:34:06.200 We don't want to just read it as an old Testament believer. 00:34:06.840 --> 00:34:07.279 Uh, 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:08.700 we don't want to just pretend, 00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:09.220 okay, 00:34:09.220 --> 00:34:11.320 I'm an Israelite wandering in the wilderness. 00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:14.119 And this is what God says for me to do. 00:34:14.720 --> 00:34:15.159 Um, 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:16.200 we want to bring, 00:34:16.200 --> 00:34:17.320 uh, 00:34:17.380 --> 00:34:21.300 the understanding that Jesus has fulfilled the law. 00:34:21.680 --> 00:34:22.539 And so, 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:26.119 so that's sort of a place or location kind of thing. 00:34:26.180 --> 00:34:27.300 This is all kind of abstract. 00:34:27.300 --> 00:34:28.440 And to be honest, 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:31.320 this one does not, 00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:33.440 does not speak to me. 00:34:33.500 --> 00:34:34.360 I've never used it. 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:36.120 I may never like, 00:34:36.220 --> 00:34:37.380 so these series of questions, 00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:38.380 Joseph Hall questions. 00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:39.320 Anyway, 00:34:39.539 --> 00:34:39.980 uh, 00:34:39.980 --> 00:34:42.019 you can look at the others and kind of think about, 00:34:42.100 --> 00:34:43.260 so they're just different ways. 00:34:43.300 --> 00:34:47.580 It's just tools to get a different angle on what you're reading. 00:34:47.580 --> 00:34:47.980 Right? 00:34:47.980 --> 00:34:49.719 Because especially if it's familiar, 00:34:49.940 --> 00:34:50.980 we're going to be like, 00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:52.440 I know what this means. 00:34:52.639 --> 00:35:02.199 And we've maybe always come to it with a certain understanding because we heard this verse taught 75 times in our childhood church. 00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:06.199 And so we know what that person, 00:35:06.759 --> 00:35:07.439 that pastor, 00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:08.159 that teacher, 00:35:08.279 --> 00:35:08.939 that church, 00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:10.639 how they interpreted it. 00:35:10.699 --> 00:35:15.699 But we may not have really come to it with our own hearts and minds engaged. 00:35:15.699 --> 00:35:16.779 Um, 00:35:17.179 --> 00:35:18.739 there are many verses I come to, 00:35:18.819 --> 00:35:21.539 and I remember what the guy who led my, 00:35:21.779 --> 00:35:23.719 the Bible study I was in in high school, 00:35:24.019 --> 00:35:25.159 what he said about it. 00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:26.039 Now, 00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:28.319 if I just stopped there, 00:35:29.219 --> 00:35:29.759 he was a good, 00:35:29.859 --> 00:35:30.559 he was good. 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:30.980 Right? 00:35:31.059 --> 00:35:31.239 He, 00:35:31.359 --> 00:35:32.199 he knew, 00:35:32.359 --> 00:35:33.239 he knew the scriptures. 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:34.439 He knew the Lord. 00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:35.359 He loved the Lord. 00:35:35.359 --> 00:35:37.239 He taught us true things. 00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:40.219 But maybe there's more to it than his angle. 00:35:40.479 --> 00:35:40.659 Right? 00:35:40.739 --> 00:35:42.099 We all have angles. 00:35:42.939 --> 00:35:43.339 Um, 00:35:43.399 --> 00:35:45.219 so these are just different ways to, 00:35:45.339 --> 00:35:46.639 to find a different angle, 00:35:47.019 --> 00:35:47.399 um, 00:35:47.500 --> 00:35:47.939 on it. 00:35:50.379 --> 00:35:50.939 Uh, 00:35:50.939 --> 00:35:51.899 number 14, 00:35:52.259 --> 00:35:56.519 set and discover a minimum number of insights from the text. 00:35:57.139 --> 00:35:59.500 So the idea here is you come, 00:35:59.639 --> 00:35:59.859 you've, 00:35:59.859 --> 00:36:01.899 you've chosen your verse and you say, 00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:02.399 okay, 00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:04.239 I have, 00:36:04.399 --> 00:36:07.219 I have 10 minutes to meditate on this. 00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:07.579 First, 00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:12.219 I'm going to come up with 15 different insights. 00:36:13.059 --> 00:36:19.539 And so you just set that ahead and then you just look at it and you study it and you think about it and you think about the different words and you, 00:36:19.659 --> 00:36:20.839 you think about the phrases, 00:36:21.019 --> 00:36:21.939 you think about the connections, 00:36:22.059 --> 00:36:26.779 you think about it in all these kinds of ways and write down insights. 00:36:27.619 --> 00:36:29.159 Maybe something you never noticed before. 00:36:29.359 --> 00:36:30.279 Maybe something you noticed, 00:36:30.399 --> 00:36:31.719 but you didn't see how it was connected. 00:36:31.919 --> 00:36:32.339 Or maybe, 00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:35.119 maybe it's like one of the, 00:36:35.179 --> 00:36:35.759 like in the, 00:36:35.759 --> 00:36:37.039 in the, 00:36:37.239 --> 00:36:39.599 first thing we did emphasizing different words. 00:36:40.539 --> 00:36:40.759 You know, 00:36:40.839 --> 00:36:41.919 you could go through that. 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:43.359 If there's 15 words in the verse, 00:36:43.419 --> 00:36:45.639 you should have 15 insights right there. 00:36:46.199 --> 00:36:48.459 And if 15 insights come right away, 00:36:48.539 --> 00:36:51.519 because you have this really rich and complex verse, 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:54.219 then you didn't set a high enough goal. 00:36:54.219 --> 00:36:56.099 You want to set a stretch goal. 00:36:56.099 --> 00:37:00.000 Like you want to set a goal that you don't think is reachable. 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:00.739 Right? 00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:08.119 So 15 may be more than enough for some verses and 15 may be way too few for another verse. 00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:09.440 So you find it easy. 00:37:09.440 --> 00:37:09.759 So you find it easy. 00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:11.099 Push yourself. 00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:11.599 There's, 00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:12.319 there's more, 00:37:12.500 --> 00:37:13.000 there's more. 00:37:13.539 --> 00:37:14.599 Maybe I can do 30. 00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:15.179 And, 00:37:15.299 --> 00:37:19.960 and it forces you to just kind of keep returning when you think you've, 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:21.940 you think you've exhausted the text. 00:37:23.219 --> 00:37:23.699 Um, 00:37:23.699 --> 00:37:25.819 but then you're like, 00:37:25.839 --> 00:37:27.359 I'm only at 14. 00:37:27.779 --> 00:37:28.919 Surely there's something else. 00:37:28.939 --> 00:37:34.419 And it makes you go back to it and go back to it and mine it for all that it has. 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:36.519 And ask the Lord to show you things. 00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:36.960 And, 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:38.339 you know, 00:37:38.500 --> 00:37:38.799 possibly, 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:40.739 maybe you won't come up with number 15, 00:37:40.839 --> 00:37:41.619 but maybe you will. 00:37:41.799 --> 00:37:42.939 And that will be really, 00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:46.340 you will have fought for it. 00:37:46.340 --> 00:37:46.639 Right? 00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.860 And it will be something very precious. 00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:51.079 Um, 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:56.480 and it may be the place where the Lord speaks to you most deeply that day or that week. 00:37:56.579 --> 00:37:57.200 You know, 00:37:57.300 --> 00:37:58.039 we don't know. 00:37:58.780 --> 00:37:59.179 Um, 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:00.320 so, 00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:02.220 so this is a, 00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:03.139 this is a, 00:38:03.139 --> 00:38:03.519 um, 00:38:04.619 --> 00:38:04.820 yeah, 00:38:04.820 --> 00:38:06.619 it's just a great way to push yourself. 00:38:06.860 --> 00:38:07.480 If you, 00:38:07.619 --> 00:38:09.780 if you read the verse and you think I'm not getting anything here, 00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:11.019 um, 00:38:11.019 --> 00:38:16.639 find a link or common thread between the chapters or paragraphs you've read. 00:38:16.780 --> 00:38:18.480 So this is more of a big picture. 00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:19.480 It's like, 00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:21.179 how is this connected to this? 00:38:21.780 --> 00:38:22.280 Right? 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:28.940 Why is this parable here with these parables around it? 00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:32.739 Why does this parable come first in this string of parables? 00:38:33.739 --> 00:38:33.920 You know, 00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:34.420 so that, 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:35.239 uh, 00:38:35.539 --> 00:38:35.880 you know, 00:38:35.900 --> 00:38:36.860 requires you to, 00:38:36.940 --> 00:38:39.119 to step back a little and look at context, 00:38:39.119 --> 00:38:40.380 which is super important. 00:38:40.380 --> 00:38:42.880 And as we read the Bible is where it is, 00:38:42.900 --> 00:38:44.300 if you come to the gospels, 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:47.960 it's not just random how they got put together. 00:38:48.079 --> 00:38:49.360 They didn't just throw a bunch of, 00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:49.700 okay, 00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:51.700 let's do a parable chapter. 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:52.840 I'll just put it in here. 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:54.599 I'll make it Matthew chapter 13. 00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:55.720 And that'll be parables. 00:38:56.360 --> 00:38:56.640 Um, 00:38:57.300 --> 00:38:57.640 no, 00:38:57.900 --> 00:39:05.440 Matthew had a plan and a purpose and a reason for putting it there and a reason for how he placed each parable. 00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:06.619 Um, 00:39:06.820 --> 00:39:07.900 so, 00:39:07.900 --> 00:39:12.179 so you want to look at those kinds of things and that can be very fruitful, 00:39:12.179 --> 00:39:14.280 even though you're not focusing on a single verse, 00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.260 but you're thinking about the, 00:39:16.260 --> 00:39:19.559 the whole structure in front of you. 00:39:20.200 --> 00:39:20.659 Um, 00:39:20.659 --> 00:39:21.159 um, 00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:22.420 and that can teach you something. 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.039 That whole structure also shows you something. 00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:26.299 Um, 00:39:26.659 --> 00:39:29.559 number 16, 00:39:29.739 --> 00:39:33.059 ask how the text speaks to your current issue or question. 00:39:33.059 --> 00:39:34.219 You've got something on your heart. 00:39:34.659 --> 00:39:35.059 You're, 00:39:35.379 --> 00:39:40.119 you're thinking about war in Ukraine and, 00:39:40.179 --> 00:39:42.440 and the Ukrainian people and how they're suffering. 00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:45.880 How does this verse help me? 00:39:46.260 --> 00:39:47.659 How does it help me pray for them? 00:39:47.780 --> 00:39:48.360 How does it, 00:39:48.740 --> 00:39:49.039 you know, 00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:49.700 what does it, 00:39:50.260 --> 00:39:51.400 how does it comfort me? 00:39:52.019 --> 00:39:54.300 How can I pray this comfort for them? 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:55.220 Um, 00:39:55.220 --> 00:39:56.320 and we all have, 00:39:56.800 --> 00:39:57.220 you know, 00:39:58.220 --> 00:40:00.659 plenty of things that we think about, 00:40:00.740 --> 00:40:01.400 we wonder about, 00:40:01.480 --> 00:40:02.500 we have questions about, 00:40:02.659 --> 00:40:03.760 we worry about, 00:40:04.200 --> 00:40:04.720 we, 00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:05.360 um, 00:40:05.579 --> 00:40:07.099 are happy about, 00:40:07.539 --> 00:40:08.200 um, 00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:09.039 how does this, 00:40:09.139 --> 00:40:11.960 how does this text fit in with all that? 00:40:12.440 --> 00:40:12.960 And it, 00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:14.500 it might not always, 00:40:14.659 --> 00:40:14.880 right? 00:40:15.740 --> 00:40:16.340 You know, 00:40:16.460 --> 00:40:17.280 every verse, 00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:18.880 every word doesn't apply to everything. 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:19.679 Um, 00:40:20.240 --> 00:40:20.619 so, 00:40:20.860 --> 00:40:21.260 you know, 00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:22.599 but try, 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:23.440 and maybe it, 00:40:23.700 --> 00:40:24.460 maybe it does. 00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:25.599 And you don't want to get, 00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:26.099 you know, 00:40:26.519 --> 00:40:26.820 we, 00:40:26.900 --> 00:40:30.260 we want to pay attention to what the text actually says and what it said, 00:40:31.099 --> 00:40:31.539 uh, 00:40:31.940 --> 00:40:32.179 you know, 00:40:32.179 --> 00:40:34.500 what the author intended for it to say. 00:40:34.820 --> 00:40:36.260 We want to look at that, 00:40:36.820 --> 00:40:37.320 um, 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:41.800 and not just kind of pull random things out of, 00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:43.860 out of a isolated verse. 00:40:43.880 --> 00:40:44.060 Like, 00:40:44.140 --> 00:40:44.780 that's not gonna, 00:40:45.019 --> 00:40:46.720 that's not gonna lead to flourishing. 00:40:46.980 --> 00:40:49.960 We want to keep tethered to the text and its context. 00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:51.240 Um, 00:40:52.019 --> 00:40:55.140 but we want to look at it from different angles. 00:40:55.740 --> 00:40:56.180 Uh, 00:40:56.180 --> 00:40:56.480 like, 00:40:56.740 --> 00:40:56.980 like, 00:40:57.060 --> 00:40:57.160 uh, 00:40:57.220 --> 00:41:02.240 the way a prism refracts light in different ways. 00:41:02.720 --> 00:41:03.980 Whatever a prism does, 00:41:04.039 --> 00:41:04.180 right? 00:41:04.660 --> 00:41:05.060 Uh, 00:41:05.180 --> 00:41:05.380 you know, 00:41:05.380 --> 00:41:05.580 the, 00:41:05.580 --> 00:41:07.700 the beam goes in and it goes out in different ways. 00:41:07.699 --> 00:41:11.539 We want to turn that prism and look at the different, 00:41:11.539 --> 00:41:13.739 different aspects of this text. 00:41:14.619 --> 00:41:14.939 Um, 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:17.299 and the last one, 00:41:17.379 --> 00:41:18.279 number 17, 00:41:18.779 --> 00:41:20.699 he calls it meditation mapping. 00:41:20.699 --> 00:41:21.279 And he, 00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:21.939 uh, 00:41:22.259 --> 00:41:25.179 he notes down there a couple of books on mind mapping. 00:41:25.980 --> 00:41:30.619 And some of you use this in other contexts in your life. 00:41:30.679 --> 00:41:31.879 I know my husband does. 00:41:32.339 --> 00:41:32.819 Um, 00:41:33.379 --> 00:41:35.879 and he gives some guidelines for how to do this. 00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:37.000 And this is sort of visual. 00:41:37.160 --> 00:41:37.480 You would, 00:41:37.640 --> 00:41:38.079 you know, 00:41:38.200 --> 00:41:42.079 put the verse or a word or phrase, 00:41:42.240 --> 00:41:44.260 like write it down in the middle of a circle around it. 00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:47.420 Then you're going to think of all these different things and then how they connect. 00:41:47.420 --> 00:41:47.920 And I don't, 00:41:48.099 --> 00:41:50.039 I'm not a mind mapping expert. 00:41:50.740 --> 00:41:51.140 Um, 00:41:51.720 --> 00:41:52.820 but he has some, 00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:55.340 he has some ideas for how to do this. 00:41:55.380 --> 00:41:55.800 And you can, 00:41:56.119 --> 00:41:56.360 you know, 00:41:56.380 --> 00:41:57.860 I'm sure you just Google mind mapping. 00:41:57.980 --> 00:41:59.260 You'll get a lot of help, 00:41:59.260 --> 00:42:00.300 um, 00:42:00.460 --> 00:42:01.539 in what this looks like. 00:42:01.539 --> 00:42:02.840 And that can be really helpful. 00:42:03.200 --> 00:42:03.440 Um, 00:42:03.820 --> 00:42:05.860 I tend to be a really linear thinker. 00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:08.720 And mind mapping doesn't really, 00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:10.880 I mean, 00:42:10.920 --> 00:42:11.900 I haven't tried it that much, 00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:13.200 so maybe I should just try it. 00:42:13.380 --> 00:42:13.400 But, 00:42:13.720 --> 00:42:16.900 but it just doesn't attract me because it just looked like, 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:17.200 ah, 00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:18.039 scattered. 00:42:18.460 --> 00:42:18.619 But, 00:42:18.780 --> 00:42:19.059 um, 00:42:19.940 --> 00:42:21.460 but some of us, 00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:21.660 it's, 00:42:21.860 --> 00:42:22.280 you know, 00:42:22.280 --> 00:42:23.579 that's going to be really helpful. 00:42:23.579 --> 00:42:24.039 And, 00:42:24.200 --> 00:42:24.360 and, 00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:26.079 and I know like for Dave, 00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:27.059 it's really helpful, 00:42:27.059 --> 00:42:28.019 um, 00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:29.220 in ways it's not for me. 00:42:29.220 --> 00:42:30.220 And you may find that. 00:42:31.179 --> 00:42:31.859 So Dr. 00:42:31.939 --> 00:42:33.739 Whitney gave us these 17 ways. 00:42:34.099 --> 00:42:35.439 And he basically said, 00:42:35.699 --> 00:42:38.159 you don't have to do them all. 00:42:38.399 --> 00:42:40.500 You're certainly not going to do them all on a given day. 00:42:41.179 --> 00:42:41.619 Um, 00:42:41.619 --> 00:42:45.440 but these are different things you can try. 00:42:45.940 --> 00:42:46.239 You know, 00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:48.159 if you're trying to meditate on something and you're like, 00:42:48.319 --> 00:42:49.259 I'm not getting anywhere, 00:42:49.259 --> 00:42:50.179 you know, 00:42:50.179 --> 00:42:50.519 you can, 00:42:50.619 --> 00:42:52.380 you can pull this out and say, 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:52.579 okay, 00:42:52.579 --> 00:42:53.059 what can I, 00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:54.179 what can I do with this? 00:42:54.339 --> 00:42:54.559 Right. 00:42:54.559 --> 00:42:55.599 Um, 00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:56.579 you know, 00:42:56.599 --> 00:42:57.739 maybe the Philippians four, 00:42:57.799 --> 00:43:00.679 eight questions will help me to focus in on what, 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:04.659 what's being said here and how I can understand it. 00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:05.639 Um, 00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:06.519 you know, 00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:07.119 or maybe, 00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:07.719 you know, 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:11.639 I need to think about how it applies to this situation or that situation. 00:43:12.360 --> 00:43:12.759 Um, 00:43:12.759 --> 00:43:14.659 maybe I just need to try and synthesize it, 00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:14.980 sort of, 00:43:15.179 --> 00:43:15.699 you know, 00:43:15.980 --> 00:43:18.460 understand it and try and write it in my own words. 00:43:18.599 --> 00:43:20.659 And that's going to require you to really, 00:43:21.019 --> 00:43:21.599 as I said, 00:43:21.699 --> 00:43:22.400 synthesize it, 00:43:22.460 --> 00:43:24.539 like put it all together with other things. 00:43:24.539 --> 00:43:25.360 Things that you know, 00:43:25.500 --> 00:43:26.559 and make it, 00:43:26.739 --> 00:43:27.880 that makes it part of you. 00:43:28.619 --> 00:43:28.980 Um, 00:43:29.219 --> 00:43:32.179 so that's what this is. 00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:34.440 It's a grab bag of ideas, 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:35.440 uh, 00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:36.679 for how to meditate. 00:43:37.279 --> 00:43:38.179 You look through, 00:43:38.300 --> 00:43:41.259 maybe you're not in the practice of meditating on scripture much. 00:43:41.759 --> 00:43:41.940 You know, 00:43:41.980 --> 00:43:43.400 if I were you in that position, 00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:46.059 I would just read through these or as I've talked through them, 00:43:46.460 --> 00:43:48.159 think about what one seems like, 00:43:48.259 --> 00:43:48.679 Oh yeah, 00:43:48.779 --> 00:43:49.500 I could do that. 00:43:49.579 --> 00:43:49.980 Makes sense. 00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.099 I could do that and start there. 00:43:52.759 --> 00:43:53.159 Um, 00:43:53.699 --> 00:43:54.019 I, 00:43:54.019 --> 00:43:55.519 that number one, 00:43:55.619 --> 00:43:56.679 emphasize different words. 00:43:56.780 --> 00:43:58.579 I learned probably as a teenager. 00:43:59.139 --> 00:43:59.579 Um, 00:43:59.579 --> 00:44:00.619 and it's very accessible. 00:44:00.860 --> 00:44:01.980 Any of us can do that, 00:44:02.219 --> 00:44:04.840 put the emphasis on different word and focus on that word. 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:05.800 Um, 00:44:06.539 --> 00:44:12.500 and I could do it as a teenager and it's still profitable now that I'm very far from being a teenager. 00:44:12.500 --> 00:44:13.300 So, 00:44:13.820 --> 00:44:14.219 um, 00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:16.320 so many of these things are just, 00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:18.199 they're very accessible and you can just, 00:44:18.260 --> 00:44:19.079 just try it. 00:44:19.639 --> 00:44:20.059 Um, 00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:20.559 and again, 00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:21.800 I haven't tried all of them. 00:44:22.579 --> 00:44:23.059 Um, 00:44:23.340 --> 00:44:23.820 but I, 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:25.440 I've probably done a lot of them. 00:44:25.699 --> 00:44:26.019 Uh, 00:44:26.019 --> 00:44:27.900 and yeah, 00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:28.739 so, 00:44:29.739 --> 00:44:30.800 so don't ever say, 00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:33.060 I don't know how to meditate. 00:44:33.060 --> 00:44:33.480 Um, 00:44:33.480 --> 00:44:36.220 I don't know how to meditate because now you have 17 ways to meditate. 00:44:38.680 --> 00:44:39.340 All right. 00:44:42.660 --> 00:44:43.060 Okay. 00:44:43.060 --> 00:44:43.800 There's a verse. 00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.260 This is a verse. 00:44:46.400 --> 00:44:47.500 I'll just give you this much. 00:44:47.660 --> 00:44:48.840 This is a verse that, 00:44:48.840 --> 00:44:49.800 uh, 00:44:50.640 --> 00:44:52.019 uh, 00:44:52.019 --> 00:44:53.960 the pastors were preaching through Colossians. 00:44:54.440 --> 00:44:58.580 I don't even sure when this was within the last two years because it was during the pandemic. 00:44:59.100 --> 00:44:59.980 Very much so. 00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.539 And I thought I need endurance and patience when I got, 00:45:04.640 --> 00:45:05.500 when they got to this verse, 00:45:05.539 --> 00:45:06.880 I don't know what was said about it. 00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:07.980 I don't know who preached it. 00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:08.860 I don't know any of that, 00:45:08.860 --> 00:45:13.680 but I recognized I wanted endurance and patience. 00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:14.519 With joy. 00:45:14.700 --> 00:45:17.000 I didn't just want to gut myself through. 00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:18.620 This is during a time of, 00:45:18.740 --> 00:45:18.980 you know, 00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:23.280 lots of staying at home and not going places. 00:45:23.620 --> 00:45:23.700 And, 00:45:23.820 --> 00:45:24.740 you know, 00:45:25.160 --> 00:45:27.960 church was all this social distance stuff and it was, 00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:29.720 there were masks and all this kind of stuff. 00:45:30.120 --> 00:45:30.400 Um, 00:45:31.180 --> 00:45:33.200 and I was just like gutting it out. 00:45:33.260 --> 00:45:33.460 Right. 00:45:33.500 --> 00:45:34.180 It was hard. 00:45:34.640 --> 00:45:35.000 Uh, 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:35.760 I missed people. 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:36.180 I, 00:45:37.019 --> 00:45:37.580 it was just hard. 00:45:37.580 --> 00:45:38.400 So that's, 00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:40.500 that's where this verse really grabbed hold of me. 00:45:41.019 --> 00:45:41.400 Um, 00:45:41.600 --> 00:45:41.820 I, 00:45:41.920 --> 00:45:42.720 I wrote it out. 00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:45.379 I eventually put it on one of those little tags on my, 00:45:45.500 --> 00:45:46.659 on my little key chain thing. 00:45:47.399 --> 00:45:47.719 Um, 00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:50.559 so that's why I picked this verse because it, 00:45:50.759 --> 00:45:52.319 it's just one of those. 00:45:52.379 --> 00:45:56.059 And there's a lot there that you don't always see at first glance. 00:45:56.059 --> 00:45:56.619 So, 00:45:56.619 --> 00:45:57.679 um, 00:45:57.679 --> 00:45:58.679 um, 00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:01.199 it's exactly what I was going to do. 00:46:01.759 --> 00:46:02.079 Okay. 00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:02.480 So, 00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:04.960 so here's what I want to do. 00:46:05.460 --> 00:46:05.899 Um, 00:46:06.139 --> 00:46:08.899 okay. 00:46:09.059 --> 00:46:11.539 So we're going to spend a few minutes on this, 00:46:11.539 --> 00:46:12.399 uh, 00:46:12.500 --> 00:46:13.139 using, 00:46:13.139 --> 00:46:14.759 um, 00:46:15.419 --> 00:46:17.019 the method number one, 00:46:17.419 --> 00:46:20.319 emphasizing different words in the text. 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:25.440 So I'm going to ask many of you to read, 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:29.120 read the verse and emphasize a different word. 00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:30.000 Okay. 00:46:30.220 --> 00:46:31.620 So do I have a volunteer, 00:46:32.160 --> 00:46:33.240 Mary, 00:46:33.320 --> 00:46:36.800 would you read it emphasizing that first word? 00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:40.080 Being strengthened with all power, 00:46:40.180 --> 00:46:44.380 according to his glorious might for all endurance and patience with joy, 00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:46.300 giving thanks to the father. 00:46:46.300 --> 00:46:46.860 Okay. 00:46:47.539 --> 00:46:50.840 So Mary emphasized strengthened being is actually the first word, 00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:51.600 but it's, 00:46:51.700 --> 00:46:51.900 it's, 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:52.200 it's, 00:46:52.200 --> 00:46:53.760 I took out a middle of the sentence. 00:46:53.900 --> 00:46:55.000 Let's just go with strengthened. 00:46:56.700 --> 00:46:58.480 What do you think about when you think about strengthened? 00:46:58.620 --> 00:47:00.539 Just toss to toss some stuff out. 00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:00.880 I just, 00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:01.420 we want to, 00:47:01.640 --> 00:47:03.380 you would do this on your own probably, 00:47:03.500 --> 00:47:05.620 or maybe with a friend or a spouse or something. 00:47:06.100 --> 00:47:06.500 Um, 00:47:06.780 --> 00:47:08.100 but what are some things that come to mind? 00:47:08.160 --> 00:47:08.380 Go ahead, 00:47:08.440 --> 00:47:08.620 Ralph. 00:47:08.620 --> 00:47:09.019 Uh, 00:47:09.420 --> 00:47:13.140 we have a variety of great diversity of strengths. 00:47:13.580 --> 00:47:13.820 Yeah. 00:47:14.460 --> 00:47:14.780 Yep. 00:47:15.120 --> 00:47:15.360 Yep. 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:16.300 And we see it. 00:47:16.539 --> 00:47:17.800 There's some strengths in people. 00:47:18.200 --> 00:47:18.480 Yeah. 00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:19.059 Yeah. 00:47:19.140 --> 00:47:19.579 What else? 00:47:22.820 --> 00:47:23.380 Equipped, 00:47:23.480 --> 00:47:25.039 equipped to handle whatever, 00:47:25.700 --> 00:47:26.220 strengthen, 00:47:26.500 --> 00:47:27.120 equipped to, 00:47:27.120 --> 00:47:27.519 uh, 00:47:27.660 --> 00:47:28.019 endure. 00:47:28.500 --> 00:47:28.800 Yeah. 00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:29.680 Yeah. 00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:31.140 Good. 00:47:31.180 --> 00:47:31.500 What else? 00:47:34.559 --> 00:47:36.599 Visualizing someone at the gym, 00:47:36.740 --> 00:47:37.240 just like, 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:38.559 like pressing weights, 00:47:38.680 --> 00:47:39.400 like just doing, 00:47:39.860 --> 00:47:40.340 sweating. 00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:41.539 It's not, 00:47:41.660 --> 00:47:42.180 it's not, 00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:43.019 it's not. 00:47:43.180 --> 00:47:43.660 Yeah. 00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:44.380 Yeah. 00:47:44.380 --> 00:47:47.420 We know that building strength is like that, 00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:47.700 right? 00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:48.059 It's, 00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:48.980 it's challenging. 00:47:49.340 --> 00:47:49.619 Right. 00:47:49.760 --> 00:47:50.079 Good. 00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:51.500 What else? 00:47:51.500 --> 00:47:54.960 I think of someone after physical therapy, 00:47:55.039 --> 00:47:55.640 after an injury, 00:47:55.860 --> 00:47:58.280 being able to walk again after they couldn't. 00:47:59.440 --> 00:47:59.920 Yeah. 00:48:00.619 --> 00:48:01.059 Yeah. 00:48:01.260 --> 00:48:02.640 And that brings to mind for me, 00:48:02.720 --> 00:48:03.119 like the, 00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:04.099 just the prop, 00:48:04.180 --> 00:48:06.300 the physical process of how things are strengthened. 00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:07.240 Right. 00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:08.039 And how that, 00:48:08.939 --> 00:48:09.039 I, 00:48:09.159 --> 00:48:09.299 you know, 00:48:09.299 --> 00:48:11.059 I'm not a physical therapist, 00:48:11.059 --> 00:48:11.319 but, 00:48:11.459 --> 00:48:13.859 but just how the body heals itself, 00:48:13.859 --> 00:48:14.500 you know, 00:48:14.500 --> 00:48:15.219 and how that, 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:16.399 it takes time. 00:48:16.399 --> 00:48:16.699 Right. 00:48:16.979 --> 00:48:18.359 And it takes those exercises. 00:48:18.359 --> 00:48:20.379 It takes certain ways to do that. 00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:21.379 Um, 00:48:21.380 --> 00:48:24.599 if we look at being strengthened, 00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:26.019 does that add anything? 00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:29.780 I think of the exoskeleton things, 00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:30.119 uh, 00:48:30.640 --> 00:48:32.200 people who can't, 00:48:32.240 --> 00:48:32.460 like, 00:48:33.200 --> 00:48:34.260 walk on their own, 00:48:34.579 --> 00:48:35.420 or stand on their own. 00:48:35.420 --> 00:48:35.680 Yeah. 00:48:35.680 --> 00:48:36.000 Yeah. 00:48:36.000 --> 00:48:36.099 Yeah. 00:48:36.340 --> 00:48:37.300 Exoskeletons that, 00:48:38.780 --> 00:48:40.320 it takes time to do those things. 00:48:41.140 --> 00:48:41.420 Yep. 00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:42.260 Yeah. 00:48:43.260 --> 00:48:43.880 We need help, 00:48:43.940 --> 00:48:44.160 right? 00:48:44.160 --> 00:48:44.220 Right. 00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:45.519 So, 00:48:45.660 --> 00:48:46.640 uh, 00:48:46.640 --> 00:48:47.160 structure, 00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:47.599 like, 00:48:47.680 --> 00:48:48.200 you provide, 00:48:48.420 --> 00:48:49.059 it's like, 00:48:49.220 --> 00:48:49.840 it's so good. 00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:50.320 Yeah. 00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:51.240 Yeah. 00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:52.800 Yeah. 00:48:53.620 --> 00:48:54.400 It's passive. 00:48:55.360 --> 00:48:56.420 It's something that, 00:48:56.420 --> 00:48:57.920 it's done to us. 00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:58.220 Yeah. 00:48:58.500 --> 00:48:58.820 It's passive. 00:48:59.640 --> 00:49:00.039 It's, 00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:00.300 you know, 00:49:00.300 --> 00:49:00.900 a part of simple, 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:01.539 it's ongoing. 00:49:02.340 --> 00:49:02.680 Mm-hmm. 00:49:02.840 --> 00:49:03.100 Mm-hmm. 00:49:04.220 --> 00:49:04.620 Yep. 00:49:05.820 --> 00:49:06.260 Yeah. 00:49:06.300 --> 00:49:07.480 So it's not just, 00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:08.559 gutting it out, 00:49:08.620 --> 00:49:08.840 right? 00:49:08.900 --> 00:49:10.240 It's not just lifting weights. 00:49:10.380 --> 00:49:11.180 That's part of it. 00:49:11.539 --> 00:49:12.440 But it's not just that, 00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:12.740 right? 00:49:12.820 --> 00:49:13.360 We need, 00:49:14.059 --> 00:49:15.140 to be strengthened. 00:49:15.539 --> 00:49:15.780 And, 00:49:16.019 --> 00:49:16.260 you know, 00:49:16.300 --> 00:49:17.260 if you're doing this on your own, 00:49:17.300 --> 00:49:18.720 you'd have the verses around it. 00:49:19.220 --> 00:49:19.500 Um, 00:49:19.500 --> 00:49:20.719 I just pulled these out, 00:49:20.900 --> 00:49:22.340 and see where we go with them. 00:49:22.460 --> 00:49:22.599 But, 00:49:23.420 --> 00:49:24.079 but yeah. 00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:25.460 Anything else? 00:49:26.179 --> 00:49:26.480 Things? 00:49:26.599 --> 00:49:27.480 Strong tower? 00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:28.039 Like, 00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:29.199 the chest piece, 00:49:29.340 --> 00:49:29.860 the tower? 00:49:30.219 --> 00:49:30.539 Okay. 00:49:31.500 --> 00:49:32.019 That's, 00:49:32.179 --> 00:49:32.639 it's amazing. 00:49:32.739 --> 00:49:33.019 Visual. 00:49:34.460 --> 00:49:35.599 You're surprised. 00:49:37.260 --> 00:49:37.739 Yep. 00:49:39.420 --> 00:49:39.900 Yeah. 00:49:40.579 --> 00:49:41.400 Anything else? 00:49:41.780 --> 00:49:42.000 Mary? 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:44.039 I think of being strengthened, 00:49:44.260 --> 00:49:45.840 strengthened by the Holy Spirit. 00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:46.420 Yeah. 00:49:47.059 --> 00:49:47.480 Yeah. 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:47.559 Yeah. 00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:49.880 Yep. 00:49:54.320 --> 00:49:54.940 Anything else? 00:50:00.460 --> 00:50:01.380 Let's get one more. 00:50:01.500 --> 00:50:01.740 Come on. 00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:02.400 We can do it. 00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:02.960 Yeah. 00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:09.900 I think about putting up, 00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:10.139 uh, 00:50:10.139 --> 00:50:10.860 armor of God. 00:50:11.500 --> 00:50:11.840 Mm-hmm. 00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:12.719 Mm-hmm. 00:50:13.420 --> 00:50:13.840 Yeah. 00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:14.699 That's the kind of strength 00:50:14.699 --> 00:50:15.699 that comes from protection. 00:50:15.699 --> 00:50:16.339 Right? 00:50:16.639 --> 00:50:16.960 Yeah. 00:50:17.639 --> 00:50:18.199 And that's, 00:50:18.279 --> 00:50:19.379 that's certainly part of it. 00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:19.799 Right. 00:50:24.799 --> 00:50:25.279 Okay. 00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:27.460 Someone read the verse, 00:50:28.219 --> 00:50:29.159 and let's, 00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:31.460 let's, 00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:31.980 uh, 00:50:32.339 --> 00:50:33.819 emphasize the phrase, 00:50:33.819 --> 00:50:35.079 with all power, 00:50:35.339 --> 00:50:35.759 this time. 00:50:36.619 --> 00:50:37.139 So, 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:38.139 I want to read it with that, 00:50:38.319 --> 00:50:39.159 the emphasis on, 00:50:39.359 --> 00:50:40.019 with all power. 00:50:40.019 --> 00:50:40.159 Okay. 00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:45.319 Thanks. 00:50:46.279 --> 00:50:48.679 Being strengthened with all power, 00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:50.960 according to his glorious might, 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:53.559 for all endurance and patience with joy, 00:50:53.839 --> 00:50:55.219 giving thanks to the Father. 00:50:55.980 --> 00:50:56.379 All right. 00:50:56.539 --> 00:50:57.480 With all power. 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:02.079 You might focus on 00:51:02.079 --> 00:51:04.980 each of those words. 00:51:06.059 --> 00:51:06.539 Right? 00:51:06.539 --> 00:51:07.539 I let, 00:51:07.619 --> 00:51:08.579 I let us do a phrase, 00:51:08.759 --> 00:51:08.980 but, 00:51:09.099 --> 00:51:09.420 um, 00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:14.500 it's probably profitable to say all, 00:51:14.739 --> 00:51:15.679 to emphasize the all. 00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:16.079 What do we, 00:51:16.179 --> 00:51:17.860 what do we learn by emphasizing that all? 00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:19.519 What do we see there? 00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:23.159 Inclusivity. 00:51:24.279 --> 00:51:24.719 Inclusivity. 00:51:25.980 --> 00:51:26.420 Yep. 00:51:26.420 --> 00:51:29.219 Think of God. 00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:32.699 It reminds you of God's infinite power. 00:51:33.259 --> 00:51:33.559 Yeah. 00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:35.159 Abilities to help. 00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:36.599 Yeah. 00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:37.940 Yeah. 00:51:38.339 --> 00:51:39.159 And isn't that, 00:51:39.799 --> 00:51:39.960 you know, 00:51:39.980 --> 00:51:41.219 as we look at a verse like this, 00:51:41.399 --> 00:51:41.420 or, 00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:42.139 or, 00:51:42.339 --> 00:51:42.460 you know, 00:51:42.460 --> 00:51:44.619 you imagine when we were in the, 00:51:44.619 --> 00:51:45.980 the worst parts of the pandemic, 00:51:46.980 --> 00:51:47.359 how, 00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:54.099 how comforting was it in those times to think God has all this power? 00:51:54.279 --> 00:51:55.879 And we're going to see this in the next, 00:51:56.199 --> 00:51:56.980 uh, 00:51:57.239 --> 00:51:58.980 in the next clause, 00:51:59.299 --> 00:51:59.599 praise, 00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:00.239 whatever it is. 00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:01.059 Um, 00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:02.299 but yeah, 00:52:02.299 --> 00:52:03.759 with all power, 00:52:03.760 --> 00:52:06.200 God has all power, 00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:06.600 right? 00:52:06.620 --> 00:52:07.100 We don't. 00:52:08.100 --> 00:52:08.400 Um, 00:52:08.540 --> 00:52:09.620 but look at this. 00:52:09.680 --> 00:52:11.520 We can be strengthened with all power. 00:52:11.840 --> 00:52:12.520 Imagine that. 00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:12.900 Mary. 00:52:13.620 --> 00:52:15.920 I automatically think of another scripture, 00:52:16.200 --> 00:52:16.960 Philippians 4, 00:52:17.040 --> 00:52:17.540 13, 00:52:17.620 --> 00:52:19.700 I can do all things to Christ, 00:52:19.820 --> 00:52:20.280 the business. 00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:21.100 Yeah. 00:52:21.700 --> 00:52:22.100 Yeah. 00:52:24.019 --> 00:52:24.420 Yeah. 00:52:25.160 --> 00:52:25.800 What else? 00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:34.760 The thing that strikes me about the all and the power is like, 00:52:34.820 --> 00:52:35.080 you know, 00:52:35.560 --> 00:52:37.060 a lot of times you think of, 00:52:38.200 --> 00:52:38.880 like God's, 00:52:39.060 --> 00:52:40.960 God's going to give us some of his power, 00:52:41.060 --> 00:52:42.040 kind of help us along, 00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:42.580 you know, 00:52:42.579 --> 00:52:49.279 but this is really emphasizing that it's really God doing the whole thing. 00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:51.000 Yep. 00:52:52.099 --> 00:52:52.539 Yep. 00:52:53.980 --> 00:52:54.420 Yeah. 00:52:54.460 --> 00:52:55.960 He's not just handing us a crutch. 00:52:56.179 --> 00:52:56.579 Right. 00:52:56.799 --> 00:52:57.179 Uh, 00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:01.519 he's willing to really provide all power. 00:53:02.779 --> 00:53:03.759 And we know that, 00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:04.079 I mean, 00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:05.159 he does anyway, 00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.219 like we wouldn't be alive if it weren't for his power. 00:53:07.219 --> 00:53:07.500 Right. 00:53:08.039 --> 00:53:08.320 Um, 00:53:08.320 --> 00:53:09.039 but we don't always, 00:53:09.260 --> 00:53:10.280 we think of it as our, 00:53:10.420 --> 00:53:11.659 our job, 00:53:12.139 --> 00:53:12.599 um, 00:53:13.019 --> 00:53:14.099 and our power. 00:53:14.179 --> 00:53:15.460 And we recognize we, 00:53:15.539 --> 00:53:16.480 we don't have that. 00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:17.659 Um, 00:53:18.260 --> 00:53:20.139 so we want to look to God for it all. 00:53:20.139 --> 00:53:20.500 Right. 00:53:20.579 --> 00:53:22.699 We don't want to rely on ourselves. 00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:23.679 Um, 00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:27.079 he equips us and he enables us and we want to work with him in that process, 00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:29.019 just like the person lifting weights in the gym, 00:53:29.019 --> 00:53:30.059 um, 00:53:30.460 --> 00:53:30.820 is, 00:53:31.059 --> 00:53:33.500 is active in that process. 00:53:34.500 --> 00:53:34.940 Um, 00:53:36.219 --> 00:53:37.360 but he has, 00:53:37.500 --> 00:53:39.199 all power. 00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:44.300 I find that I struggle with is sometimes in those moments of, 00:53:44.300 --> 00:53:44.880 you know, 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:46.360 need or urgency. 00:53:46.639 --> 00:53:46.820 I, 00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:49.159 I just go into fight or flight. 00:53:49.280 --> 00:53:49.980 I just go into, 00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:51.619 just do it, 00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:51.940 you know, 00:53:51.980 --> 00:53:54.340 and I forget to pray at those times. 00:53:54.340 --> 00:53:54.760 Like, 00:53:55.219 --> 00:53:57.400 I just feel like I'm all by myself. 00:53:57.519 --> 00:53:58.500 I have to just do it. 00:53:59.019 --> 00:54:00.219 So I don't know. 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:01.079 This is helpful. 00:54:02.780 --> 00:54:03.300 Yeah. 00:54:03.860 --> 00:54:04.340 Yeah. 00:54:04.519 --> 00:54:05.559 I totally know what you're saying. 00:54:05.679 --> 00:54:05.760 I, 00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:06.219 yeah, 00:54:06.400 --> 00:54:07.039 same thing. 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:07.480 Um, 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:09.480 and then if this, 00:54:09.579 --> 00:54:13.719 like if a verse like this is in your head, 00:54:13.780 --> 00:54:14.340 in your heart, 00:54:14.340 --> 00:54:17.619 because you've meditated all the way through it as we're doing, 00:54:18.199 --> 00:54:22.740 it's more ready for you when you're in that fight or flight, 00:54:22.740 --> 00:54:24.440 when something's overwhelming, 00:54:24.760 --> 00:54:25.440 it's more, 00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:27.320 it's more accessible for you. 00:54:27.320 --> 00:54:28.340 And, 00:54:28.340 --> 00:54:29.519 I mean, 00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:37.860 I have found my ability in those kinds of situations to turn to the Lord with some kind of speed, 00:54:37.860 --> 00:54:38.960 uh, 00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:42.740 increased the more I meditate on scripture because I know him better. 00:54:42.739 --> 00:54:44.739 I know all. 00:54:44.739 --> 00:54:45.739 I know all. 00:54:45.739 --> 00:54:46.879 I don't know all, 00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:52.019 but I know some of what he has to offer and recognize that he wants to, 00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:53.179 he wants to give it. 00:54:53.179 --> 00:54:53.980 So, 00:54:53.980 --> 00:54:55.519 yeah, 00:54:56.039 --> 00:55:00.739 exactly that kind of situation is why we need more Bible in us, 00:55:00.819 --> 00:55:01.079 right? 00:55:01.279 --> 00:55:03.339 Because we tend to just do it ourselves. 00:55:04.179 --> 00:55:04.500 Um, 00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:07.179 and doing it ourselves might be a complete disaster, 00:55:07.179 --> 00:55:07.799 uh, 00:55:07.799 --> 00:55:08.739 in many cases. 00:55:09.539 --> 00:55:10.119 Yeah. 00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:10.719 Okay. 00:55:14.319 --> 00:55:14.839 Okay. 00:55:14.839 --> 00:55:17.359 Let's skip to the word glorious. 00:55:18.179 --> 00:55:19.279 Someone read it, 00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:21.420 emphasizing the word glorious. 00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:30.539 Being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for all endurance and patience with joy, 00:55:30.699 --> 00:55:31.920 giving thanks to the Father. 00:55:37.779 --> 00:55:38.380 Yeah. 00:55:38.839 --> 00:55:39.980 What's going on there? 00:55:40.119 --> 00:55:51.000 I think of holy and pure and just, 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:54.539 that's what I think I want to think of. 00:55:55.159 --> 00:55:55.679 Yeah. 00:55:59.039 --> 00:55:59.519 Yeah. 00:55:59.619 --> 00:55:59.839 And when, 00:55:59.920 --> 00:56:00.659 when you say that, 00:56:00.699 --> 00:56:02.579 I think he's, 00:56:02.799 --> 00:56:03.099 he, 00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:04.199 it's his glorious might. 00:56:04.299 --> 00:56:05.319 He's very strong, 00:56:05.380 --> 00:56:05.619 right? 00:56:05.980 --> 00:56:08.880 But it's a holy and pure might. 00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:10.000 It's not, 00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:10.920 you know, 00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:13.800 the might of a evil strong man, 00:56:13.940 --> 00:56:14.240 right? 00:56:14.320 --> 00:56:15.200 Who it's, 00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:16.880 it's not that kind of might. 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:17.599 It's not, 00:56:17.700 --> 00:56:19.820 it's not Godzilla's kind of might, 00:56:19.960 --> 00:56:20.160 right? 00:56:20.159 --> 00:56:20.639 It's, 00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:20.659 it's, 00:56:20.659 --> 00:56:21.539 it's, 00:56:21.539 --> 00:56:23.019 it's a glorious might. 00:56:23.960 --> 00:56:24.440 Yeah. 00:56:26.119 --> 00:56:27.920 It sounds different. 00:56:28.719 --> 00:56:29.219 Glorious, 00:56:29.359 --> 00:56:29.559 right? 00:56:29.619 --> 00:56:30.719 What else is glorious? 00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:31.039 It's not, 00:56:31.039 --> 00:56:31.639 it's not God. 00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:32.199 Yeah. 00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:32.559 Yeah. 00:56:32.679 --> 00:56:35.879 When you think about how Jesus exercised might, 00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:40.619 he exercised it by dying on a cross. 00:56:40.799 --> 00:56:43.299 He was strong enough to, 00:56:43.300 --> 00:56:49.280 he could have wreaked terrible vengeance on those. 00:56:49.480 --> 00:56:49.660 Yeah. 00:56:49.660 --> 00:56:49.880 Like, 00:56:50.680 --> 00:56:54.740 he was strong enough to refrain from vengeance. 00:56:54.940 --> 00:56:57.700 His might was restrained, 00:56:57.940 --> 00:57:02.200 and he actually accomplished something stronger in what he did. 00:57:02.580 --> 00:57:02.920 Yeah. 00:57:03.140 --> 00:57:07.420 And I feel like that links to endurance and patience later on. 00:57:07.539 --> 00:57:07.780 Yep. 00:57:09.200 --> 00:57:09.800 Yeah. 00:57:09.800 --> 00:57:09.860 Yeah. 00:57:13.300 --> 00:57:13.740 Also, 00:57:13.980 --> 00:57:15.360 it reminds me of like, 00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:17.420 there's a problem or something. 00:57:17.580 --> 00:57:17.720 Like, 00:57:17.740 --> 00:57:20.140 I just think of Hagar when she was, 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:22.120 when Sarah told her to leave, 00:57:22.260 --> 00:57:22.960 take her out. 00:57:23.380 --> 00:57:24.660 And she was like in the desert, 00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:25.080 like, 00:57:25.660 --> 00:57:27.019 like ready to die. 00:57:27.260 --> 00:57:27.660 And like, 00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:31.940 the glorious might of God just breaks through her trouble. 00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:32.720 Yeah. 00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:33.440 Yeah. 00:57:33.700 --> 00:57:35.260 And gives her a promise. 00:57:35.420 --> 00:57:35.800 Mm-hmm. 00:57:36.580 --> 00:57:36.940 Mm-hmm. 00:57:38.140 --> 00:57:38.620 Yeah. 00:57:38.620 --> 00:57:38.740 Yeah. 00:57:43.300 --> 00:57:53.720 Anything else? 00:57:59.720 --> 00:58:02.680 Can I speak of an image of gradients? 00:58:03.500 --> 00:58:03.840 Like, 00:58:04.080 --> 00:58:06.420 we're seeing out something that's, 00:58:06.420 --> 00:58:07.700 like, 00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:08.480 breathtaking. 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:09.260 Yeah. 00:58:09.680 --> 00:58:09.880 Yeah. 00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:11.900 And so it describes might. 00:58:12.200 --> 00:58:12.320 It's, 00:58:12.320 --> 00:58:13.700 it's beyond just, 00:58:14.579 --> 00:58:15.579 that he can accomplish, 00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:15.940 like, 00:58:16.420 --> 00:58:18.940 the logistics that he can accomplish something, 00:58:19.099 --> 00:58:22.460 but there's some sort of all to his might. 00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:23.340 Yeah. 00:58:24.640 --> 00:58:25.079 Yeah. 00:58:25.500 --> 00:58:26.220 And beauty, 00:58:26.340 --> 00:58:26.579 right? 00:58:26.700 --> 00:58:27.380 So I was trying, 00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:28.039 I was thinking about, 00:58:28.099 --> 00:58:28.200 well, 00:58:28.200 --> 00:58:29.579 how would I use this word in a, 00:58:29.680 --> 00:58:29.920 you know, 00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:30.200 a whole, 00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:31.539 not a Bible context, 00:58:31.660 --> 00:58:31.940 not a, 00:58:32.780 --> 00:58:33.019 and, 00:58:33.140 --> 00:58:33.460 you know, 00:58:33.539 --> 00:58:33.700 you, 00:58:33.800 --> 00:58:35.380 you see a beautiful sight, 00:58:35.380 --> 00:58:38.480 you see a beautiful landscape or sunset, 00:58:38.720 --> 00:58:38.960 and you see, 00:58:39.039 --> 00:58:39.119 oh, 00:58:39.160 --> 00:58:39.880 it's glorious, 00:58:40.820 --> 00:58:41.140 you know, 00:58:41.180 --> 00:58:42.140 and that beauty, 00:58:42.599 --> 00:58:42.960 and that, 00:58:43.500 --> 00:58:43.720 yes, 00:58:43.860 --> 00:58:44.220 awe, 00:58:44.380 --> 00:58:44.599 and, 00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:46.000 and all of that, 00:58:46.579 --> 00:58:48.360 that's what I think of as glorious, 00:58:48.619 --> 00:58:48.880 like, 00:58:49.360 --> 00:58:49.559 yeah, 00:58:49.720 --> 00:58:50.840 light and beauty, 00:58:51.160 --> 00:58:52.519 and holiness and purity, 00:58:53.099 --> 00:58:54.840 and just goodness, 00:58:55.200 --> 00:58:55.480 right? 00:58:59.160 --> 00:58:59.599 Yeah. 00:59:02.660 --> 00:59:03.400 So let's just, 00:59:03.500 --> 00:59:04.480 we're not going to finish the whole, 00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:04.820 we're not, 00:59:05.019 --> 00:59:05.440 we're not, 00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:05.860 yeah, 00:59:05.900 --> 00:59:07.099 we're not going to finish the whole thing, 00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:07.980 but, 00:59:08.300 --> 00:59:09.880 and we haven't talked about memorization, 00:59:10.139 --> 00:59:10.460 so, 00:59:11.159 --> 00:59:12.699 so, 00:59:12.980 --> 00:59:15.019 here's your task, 00:59:15.579 --> 00:59:17.659 take that verse, 00:59:18.340 --> 00:59:20.460 and do all the other words, 00:59:20.940 --> 00:59:22.300 right? 00:59:22.659 --> 00:59:23.079 So, 00:59:23.980 --> 00:59:24.480 so, 00:59:25.019 --> 00:59:27.719 do that sometime this week, 00:59:27.860 --> 00:59:29.300 I would just really encourage you, 00:59:30.019 --> 00:59:31.519 I hope you've seen, 00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:33.519 some of the fruit that can be born, 00:59:33.519 --> 00:59:34.519 you know, 00:59:34.579 --> 00:59:34.900 even, 00:59:35.019 --> 00:59:36.539 even as we've been doing this, 00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:37.099 I've been, 00:59:37.320 --> 00:59:37.480 like, 00:59:37.500 --> 00:59:38.380 I was really captured, 00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:39.800 as we were talking about glorious, 00:59:40.420 --> 00:59:42.019 in a way that I hadn't before, 00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:42.679 right? 00:59:42.860 --> 00:59:43.440 Because I didn't, 00:59:43.619 --> 00:59:45.960 I really didn't do this exercise on this verse, 00:59:46.059 --> 00:59:46.380 and so, 00:59:46.900 --> 00:59:49.159 so I'm thinking about the beauty of his might, 00:59:49.519 --> 00:59:50.119 that he, 00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:52.280 that he has, 00:59:52.659 --> 00:59:54.079 to strengthen me with, 00:59:54.079 --> 00:59:54.599 and, 00:59:54.840 --> 00:59:56.739 and that's, 00:59:56.739 --> 00:59:58.099 glorious, 00:59:58.579 --> 00:59:58.819 right? 01:00:00.980 --> 01:00:01.420 Yeah, 01:00:01.539 --> 01:00:02.759 so I hope you've seen, 01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:04.380 some of the benefit that can come, 01:00:04.759 --> 01:00:04.819 and, 01:00:04.900 --> 01:00:06.759 and some of the fun, 01:00:07.139 --> 01:00:08.739 and some of your things will be, 01:00:08.900 --> 01:00:09.019 like, 01:00:09.420 --> 01:00:09.960 kind of, 01:00:11.500 --> 01:00:11.799 you know, 01:00:12.019 --> 01:00:13.400 sometimes you're going to come up with an insight, 01:00:13.539 --> 01:00:14.799 that's kind of wacky, 01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:15.480 but it doesn't matter, 01:00:15.980 --> 01:00:16.799 it doesn't matter, 01:00:17.039 --> 01:00:17.299 you know, 01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:18.880 and it may lead you to something else, 01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:19.319 right? 01:00:19.320 --> 01:00:19.820 So, 01:00:23.660 --> 01:00:27.440 I want to talk briefly about memorization, 01:00:27.580 --> 01:00:28.780 I was hoping to do some more, 01:00:28.780 --> 01:00:29.820 yeah, 01:00:35.200 --> 01:00:36.519 I was hoping to do some more, 01:00:36.580 --> 01:00:39.200 actually practicing meditation, 01:00:39.400 --> 01:00:40.860 but we should wrap up soon, 01:00:41.620 --> 01:00:43.080 Psalm 119, 01:00:43.160 --> 01:00:43.480 11, 01:00:43.600 --> 01:00:45.580 I have stored up your word in my heart, 01:00:45.720 --> 01:00:47.800 that I might not sin against you, 01:00:47.800 --> 01:00:55.620 in the, 01:00:55.620 --> 01:00:58.320 in the times when the Bible was being written, 01:00:58.519 --> 01:00:59.440 it was being in, 01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:00.500 I mean, 01:01:00.560 --> 01:01:02.519 for centuries before us, 01:01:02.700 --> 01:01:03.660 essentially, 01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:08.019 hearing the scripture, 01:01:08.220 --> 01:01:09.980 it was an oral experience, 01:01:10.519 --> 01:01:12.620 and people had, 01:01:12.820 --> 01:01:13.980 I think people were, 01:01:15.640 --> 01:01:16.260 because of, 01:01:16.260 --> 01:01:18.500 because of culture and practice, 01:01:18.740 --> 01:01:20.740 and just the ways they learned things, 01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:22.460 they learned a lot of things, 01:01:22.620 --> 01:01:23.220 by heart, 01:01:23.560 --> 01:01:24.620 they learned things, 01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:25.820 through memory, 01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:27.580 in a way that we don't, 01:01:27.660 --> 01:01:29.320 and we do less and less of it, 01:01:29.380 --> 01:01:29.780 I think, 01:01:29.860 --> 01:01:31.480 as we have Google, 01:01:31.780 --> 01:01:33.440 and we have our Bibles, 01:01:34.020 --> 01:01:34.320 you know, 01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:34.920 as I said, 01:01:34.980 --> 01:01:35.960 like on our phones, 01:01:36.080 --> 01:01:37.340 or in our hip pocket, 01:01:37.600 --> 01:01:39.460 and we don't feel the need, 01:01:39.460 --> 01:01:41.380 to memorize as much, 01:01:41.380 --> 01:01:42.680 and I think it's, 01:01:42.740 --> 01:01:43.920 I think it's really hard, 01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:45.000 in our culture, 01:01:45.240 --> 01:01:46.180 and in our time, 01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:47.519 full of information, 01:01:47.720 --> 01:01:48.579 and all this kind of stuff, 01:01:49.200 --> 01:01:51.420 but I do think it's valuable, 01:01:52.160 --> 01:01:54.559 and again, 01:01:54.619 --> 01:01:56.099 it's going to be harder for some, 01:01:56.180 --> 01:01:56.840 than for others, 01:01:57.000 --> 01:01:58.059 like everything else, 01:01:58.300 --> 01:02:00.200 we all have strengths, 01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:01.059 and weaknesses, 01:02:01.059 --> 01:02:03.759 think about, 01:02:03.920 --> 01:02:05.079 the process of, 01:02:05.199 --> 01:02:06.639 meditating on that verse, 01:02:06.699 --> 01:02:07.539 that we looked at, 01:02:08.159 --> 01:02:08.799 and how, 01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:13.299 do you think now, 01:02:13.820 --> 01:02:14.940 especially if we'd gone through, 01:02:15.019 --> 01:02:15.400 the whole verse, 01:02:15.500 --> 01:02:15.920 do you think, 01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:17.759 now it would be easier, 01:02:18.159 --> 01:02:19.559 to memorize that verse, 01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:23.079 I think it would, 01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:24.279 I think for all of us, 01:02:24.360 --> 01:02:24.599 it would, 01:02:24.679 --> 01:02:25.519 because now we've got, 01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:27.460 we've got a lot of handles on it, 01:02:27.579 --> 01:02:27.799 right, 01:02:28.099 --> 01:02:28.840 and if we went through, 01:02:28.900 --> 01:02:29.659 the whole verse, 01:02:29.679 --> 01:02:30.960 as I'm asking you to do this week, 01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:32.259 you know, 01:02:32.460 --> 01:02:34.039 we're going to find, 01:02:35.279 --> 01:02:36.559 it speaks to us more, 01:02:36.639 --> 01:02:37.960 we understand it better, 01:02:38.179 --> 01:02:39.619 and the more connections, 01:02:40.259 --> 01:02:42.380 a text makes in our minds, 01:02:42.480 --> 01:02:43.360 and in our hearts, 01:02:43.619 --> 01:02:44.940 the easier it is, 01:02:45.019 --> 01:02:46.639 going to be to remember it, 01:02:47.420 --> 01:02:49.000 and that's how, 01:02:50.340 --> 01:02:51.699 that's how I've come, 01:02:51.799 --> 01:02:52.980 to see memorization, 01:02:53.579 --> 01:02:55.279 so I have used, 01:02:55.320 --> 01:02:56.739 like Bible memory apps, 01:02:56.840 --> 01:02:57.900 I've used flashcards, 01:02:58.000 --> 01:02:59.039 I've used stuff like that, 01:02:59.039 --> 01:03:02.320 and I have found it, 01:03:02.860 --> 01:03:03.659 for myself, 01:03:04.440 --> 01:03:05.800 far more profitable, 01:03:06.539 --> 01:03:07.539 to memorize, 01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:08.940 by way of meditation, 01:03:09.759 --> 01:03:11.460 because it becomes, 01:03:11.460 --> 01:03:12.639 more part of me, 01:03:13.440 --> 01:03:17.199 at the same time, 01:03:17.360 --> 01:03:17.759 I mean I do, 01:03:17.900 --> 01:03:19.420 I have another ring of cards, 01:03:19.619 --> 01:03:20.460 that are actually, 01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:22.179 verses or short passages, 01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:23.320 that I'm memorizing, 01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:24.039 but, 01:03:24.300 --> 01:03:25.940 but now that I'm, 01:03:25.940 --> 01:03:27.300 a little better at meditating, 01:03:27.580 --> 01:03:28.980 that's how I'm doing it, 01:03:29.059 --> 01:03:29.220 right, 01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:30.480 I'm meditating on it, 01:03:30.500 --> 01:03:31.780 I'm thinking it all through, 01:03:32.100 --> 01:03:33.039 and absorbing it, 01:03:33.120 --> 01:03:33.720 in that way, 01:03:34.059 --> 01:03:34.680 I found, 01:03:34.940 --> 01:03:35.460 because I, 01:03:35.640 --> 01:03:36.800 am lazy, 01:03:36.980 --> 01:03:38.200 and love to take the easy way, 01:03:38.580 --> 01:03:39.440 I found like, 01:03:39.500 --> 01:03:40.180 using an app, 01:03:40.500 --> 01:03:40.720 or, 01:03:41.820 --> 01:03:42.100 something, 01:03:42.300 --> 01:03:43.400 if I just focused on just, 01:03:43.640 --> 01:03:44.340 I gotta remember this, 01:03:44.400 --> 01:03:45.000 I gotta remember it, 01:03:45.580 --> 01:03:47.140 I wasn't getting much out of it, 01:03:47.720 --> 01:03:48.760 I might remember it, 01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:50.660 but short term, 01:03:51.680 --> 01:03:52.880 and, 01:03:53.540 --> 01:03:54.520 I didn't find it, 01:03:54.540 --> 01:03:55.580 becoming part of my life, 01:03:55.820 --> 01:03:55.940 like, 01:03:56.020 --> 01:03:56.440 and I was like, 01:03:56.460 --> 01:03:57.200 well I have memorized, 01:03:57.420 --> 01:03:58.700 if it's not becoming part of me, 01:03:58.960 --> 01:04:00.200 if it's just an activity, 01:04:00.200 --> 01:04:00.680 I do, 01:04:01.060 --> 01:04:01.700 on the app, 01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:02.300 on my phone, 01:04:02.440 --> 01:04:03.360 and that was my experience, 01:04:03.460 --> 01:04:04.500 it's not everyone's experience, 01:04:05.200 --> 01:04:05.520 my, 01:04:05.660 --> 01:04:06.740 my experience was, 01:04:06.820 --> 01:04:07.800 that was a whole separate, 01:04:08.300 --> 01:04:08.900 it was as if, 01:04:08.980 --> 01:04:09.700 it was a whole separate, 01:04:09.700 --> 01:04:10.500 chunk of my brain, 01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:11.780 and the rest of me, 01:04:12.000 --> 01:04:12.980 would just go on, 01:04:13.100 --> 01:04:13.460 and yes, 01:04:13.520 --> 01:04:14.460 I've memorized that verse, 01:04:14.580 --> 01:04:14.740 but, 01:04:15.460 --> 01:04:15.940 it's not, 01:04:16.240 --> 01:04:17.340 it's not in my mind, 01:04:17.400 --> 01:04:17.740 at heart, 01:04:17.739 --> 01:04:18.679 and I, 01:04:19.139 --> 01:04:20.699 prefer not to memorize that way, 01:04:20.779 --> 01:04:22.319 because I want to see fruit, 01:04:22.519 --> 01:04:23.179 and I'm like, 01:04:23.599 --> 01:04:23.859 again, 01:04:23.959 --> 01:04:24.359 I'm lazy, 01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:24.859 and I, 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:25.279 like, 01:04:25.359 --> 01:04:26.639 I don't want to do this, 01:04:26.659 --> 01:04:27.500 if it's not going to, 01:04:27.500 --> 01:04:28.839 bear fruit in my life, 01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:30.339 so that's my experience, 01:04:30.479 --> 01:04:31.399 and I want to, 01:04:31.839 --> 01:04:34.699 I want to give permission, 01:04:35.500 --> 01:04:37.899 to do it more that way, 01:04:37.959 --> 01:04:39.439 if that works better for you, 01:04:39.659 --> 01:04:39.899 right, 01:04:40.319 --> 01:04:40.899 again, 01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:41.699 there are, 01:04:42.079 --> 01:04:44.339 there are lots of ways, 01:04:44.619 --> 01:04:45.879 lots of methods out there, 01:04:45.979 --> 01:04:46.139 again, 01:04:46.219 --> 01:04:47.639 you can Google Bible memory, 01:04:47.739 --> 01:04:49.699 you'll find lots of different methods, 01:04:49.919 --> 01:04:50.439 ways to, 01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:54.019 memorize large portions of scripture, 01:04:54.199 --> 01:04:54.559 which is, 01:04:55.119 --> 01:04:56.639 a fabulous thing to do, 01:04:57.379 --> 01:04:58.319 you know, 01:04:59.039 --> 01:05:01.619 how to incorporate regular review, 01:05:01.619 --> 01:05:03.759 because we do need to keep reviewing, 01:05:03.759 --> 01:05:06.439 the stuff we've memorized, 01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:11.679 some of the difficulties, 01:05:12.579 --> 01:05:12.800 I mean, 01:05:12.840 --> 01:05:13.039 there are, 01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:14.460 there are all kinds of difficulties, 01:05:14.460 --> 01:05:16.340 one difficulty I have, 01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:17.179 when I'm memorizing, 01:05:17.340 --> 01:05:17.679 is that, 01:05:17.760 --> 01:05:19.220 when I was a teenager, 01:05:19.500 --> 01:05:20.420 I was in a church, 01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:21.320 where, 01:05:21.519 --> 01:05:22.420 as pretty much, 01:05:22.559 --> 01:05:23.400 all the churches, 01:05:23.619 --> 01:05:25.039 I knew of, 01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:27.099 were using the King James version, 01:05:27.099 --> 01:05:27.679 of the Bible, 01:05:27.679 --> 01:05:29.159 and I memorized a lot of stuff, 01:05:29.220 --> 01:05:30.019 in King James, 01:05:30.019 --> 01:05:31.300 and I heard it, 01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:32.340 in that language, 01:05:32.400 --> 01:05:33.420 I still hear verses, 01:05:33.559 --> 01:05:34.320 in that language, 01:05:34.940 --> 01:05:35.320 and, 01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:37.000 now I'm like, 01:05:37.119 --> 01:05:38.480 memorizing out of a different, 01:05:38.480 --> 01:05:39.440 translation, 01:05:39.759 --> 01:05:41.099 I've probably memorized some, 01:05:41.219 --> 01:05:41.679 in the, 01:05:41.679 --> 01:05:42.840 New International version, 01:05:43.300 --> 01:05:44.139 I've memorized some, 01:05:44.199 --> 01:05:44.539 in the, 01:05:44.980 --> 01:05:46.380 English Standard version, 01:05:46.500 --> 01:05:46.719 now, 01:05:46.780 --> 01:05:47.900 which is the one I mostly use, 01:05:48.019 --> 01:05:48.179 but, 01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:50.119 you know, 01:05:50.119 --> 01:05:51.599 I mix up synonyms, 01:05:51.860 --> 01:05:52.079 right, 01:05:52.159 --> 01:05:52.699 I might have, 01:05:52.699 --> 01:05:53.319 and, 01:05:53.439 --> 01:05:54.239 it might be, 01:05:54.399 --> 01:05:55.639 because of that King James, 01:05:55.779 --> 01:05:56.059 you know, 01:05:56.099 --> 01:05:57.039 it's still in my head, 01:05:57.059 --> 01:05:57.599 in my heart, 01:05:57.699 --> 01:05:57.899 right, 01:05:58.259 --> 01:05:58.559 but, 01:05:59.559 --> 01:05:59.679 I, 01:06:00.839 --> 01:06:01.099 and, 01:06:01.179 --> 01:06:02.359 and Dr. Whitney would disagree, 01:06:02.539 --> 01:06:02.719 with me, 01:06:02.879 --> 01:06:03.859 Dr. Whitney says, 01:06:04.319 --> 01:06:05.879 be word for word, 01:06:06.139 --> 01:06:06.559 accurate, 01:06:07.119 --> 01:06:07.879 and make sure, 01:06:08.059 --> 01:06:08.879 you get the, 01:06:09.139 --> 01:06:10.699 the location, 01:06:10.960 --> 01:06:11.179 the, 01:06:11.179 --> 01:06:12.839 the verse reference, 01:06:13.339 --> 01:06:14.139 make sure you memorize, 01:06:14.339 --> 01:06:15.000 all of that, 01:06:15.500 --> 01:06:16.299 and I'm sure, 01:06:16.460 --> 01:06:17.460 that's a great thing to do, 01:06:17.919 --> 01:06:19.259 it's really hard for me, 01:06:19.319 --> 01:06:20.460 to connect the verse reference, 01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:21.899 to the verse, 01:06:21.900 --> 01:06:24.019 unless I've studied it in context, 01:06:24.200 --> 01:06:25.420 and then I am much better, 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:27.099 at it, 01:06:27.420 --> 01:06:29.139 I just need a lot of connections, 01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:30.039 and to me, 01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:30.720 I just, 01:06:31.500 --> 01:06:31.780 like, 01:06:31.820 --> 01:06:32.760 I have a hard time remembering, 01:06:33.380 --> 01:06:34.740 just remembering numbers, 01:06:35.500 --> 01:06:36.639 I, 01:06:36.720 --> 01:06:37.180 I can't, 01:06:37.220 --> 01:06:38.420 I don't remember numbers, 01:06:39.180 --> 01:06:40.019 you know, 01:06:40.280 --> 01:06:41.559 my husband and I talk about this, 01:06:41.559 --> 01:06:41.780 like, 01:06:42.039 --> 01:06:42.099 I, 01:06:42.260 --> 01:06:42.440 you know, 01:06:43.139 --> 01:06:44.139 how much did that cost, 01:06:44.260 --> 01:06:44.980 I have no idea, 01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:45.660 like, 01:06:46.039 --> 01:06:46.519 you know, 01:06:46.579 --> 01:06:47.460 I'm not one of these, 01:06:47.500 --> 01:06:48.599 grocery shoppers, 01:06:48.680 --> 01:06:50.320 who remembers what it was last week, 01:06:50.360 --> 01:06:50.780 and thinks, 01:06:50.880 --> 01:06:51.019 oh, 01:06:51.160 --> 01:06:51.800 not paying that, 01:06:51.800 --> 01:06:52.200 this week, 01:06:52.680 --> 01:06:55.039 because I just can't remember the numbers, 01:06:55.280 --> 01:06:56.260 I don't make an effort, 01:06:56.480 --> 01:06:56.660 but, 01:06:57.220 --> 01:06:58.500 it's difficult, 01:06:58.820 --> 01:06:59.100 so, 01:06:59.260 --> 01:07:00.019 the verse references, 01:07:00.640 --> 01:07:02.100 just trip me up all the time, 01:07:02.720 --> 01:07:04.460 and, 01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:05.080 you know, 01:07:05.140 --> 01:07:05.440 again, 01:07:05.780 --> 01:07:06.880 in the ideal world, 01:07:07.019 --> 01:07:08.220 I would learn all of that, 01:07:08.519 --> 01:07:09.580 I would learn the words, 01:07:10.660 --> 01:07:13.180 accurate in whatever single translation, 01:07:13.180 --> 01:07:14.180 I'm using, 01:07:14.880 --> 01:07:15.180 or, 01:07:15.400 --> 01:07:16.940 or whatever, 01:07:16.940 --> 01:07:17.559 like, 01:07:17.559 --> 01:07:17.579 like, 01:07:17.900 --> 01:07:19.380 the whole verse in my head, 01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:19.920 would be, 01:07:20.039 --> 01:07:21.260 would match a translation, 01:07:21.500 --> 01:07:21.860 at least, 01:07:22.480 --> 01:07:23.679 which often, 01:07:23.860 --> 01:07:24.099 it just, 01:07:24.220 --> 01:07:24.360 I mean, 01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:25.440 sometimes it does, 01:07:26.079 --> 01:07:27.200 most of the time, 01:07:27.220 --> 01:07:27.720 I would say, 01:07:28.220 --> 01:07:28.659 but then, 01:07:28.740 --> 01:07:29.760 I'll find myself, 01:07:30.220 --> 01:07:30.559 you know, 01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:32.900 throwing in some phrase from the King James, 01:07:33.000 --> 01:07:33.300 because, 01:07:33.619 --> 01:07:34.480 because that's like, 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:35.300 it's like, 01:07:35.300 --> 01:07:37.260 it's like a first language, 01:07:37.519 --> 01:07:37.740 you know, 01:07:37.820 --> 01:07:38.260 when you, 01:07:38.420 --> 01:07:39.460 when you have a first language, 01:07:39.519 --> 01:07:40.900 and then you learn some other languages, 01:07:41.180 --> 01:07:42.340 that first one, 01:07:42.780 --> 01:07:44.340 can really stick, 01:07:44.920 --> 01:07:47.340 and I found that to be the case for me, 01:07:47.420 --> 01:07:49.860 I used the King James Bible for, 01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:55.039 for probably at least eight years, 01:07:55.400 --> 01:07:55.760 and, 01:07:55.960 --> 01:07:57.140 and many of you have used it, 01:07:57.240 --> 01:07:58.000 used it longer, 01:07:58.640 --> 01:07:59.640 because I wasn't a, 01:07:59.720 --> 01:08:01.300 I wasn't a child when I became a Christian, 01:08:01.480 --> 01:08:01.660 but, 01:08:02.180 --> 01:08:04.120 yeah, 01:08:04.119 --> 01:08:05.099 so, 01:08:05.779 --> 01:08:07.880 I'll mix up synonyms, 01:08:08.199 --> 01:08:08.880 and again, 01:08:09.319 --> 01:08:10.299 I would just encourage you, 01:08:10.440 --> 01:08:12.480 don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, 01:08:13.019 --> 01:08:14.960 if you can get the hang of a verse, 01:08:16.039 --> 01:08:16.800 and occasionally, 01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:19.039 you're going to slip up on a word, 01:08:19.140 --> 01:08:19.939 here or there, 01:08:21.300 --> 01:08:22.260 if you, 01:08:22.340 --> 01:08:24.180 if you've meditated on that verse, 01:08:24.300 --> 01:08:25.699 which should be part of it, 01:08:26.119 --> 01:08:27.340 if you've meditated on that verse, 01:08:27.659 --> 01:08:28.260 you know, 01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:30.000 you're going to know what it means, 01:08:30.599 --> 01:08:31.380 and if you say, 01:08:31.880 --> 01:08:32.079 you know, 01:08:32.079 --> 01:08:32.359 if you, 01:08:32.439 --> 01:08:33.979 if you switch synonyms, 01:08:34.119 --> 01:08:36.039 you know, 01:08:36.079 --> 01:08:36.539 if we say, 01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:37.260 if I, 01:08:37.380 --> 01:08:37.920 if I'm, 01:08:37.939 --> 01:08:39.939 going back to this verse, 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:41.279 if I'm memorizing this, 01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:41.840 and I say, 01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:42.460 be strengthened, 01:08:42.960 --> 01:08:44.559 being strengthened with all power, 01:08:44.659 --> 01:08:46.059 according to his glorious power, 01:08:47.099 --> 01:08:47.460 well, 01:08:47.739 --> 01:08:49.180 that's not what it says, 01:08:49.239 --> 01:08:49.500 right, 01:08:49.840 --> 01:08:50.380 it says might, 01:08:51.140 --> 01:08:51.880 but they mean, 01:08:52.380 --> 01:08:53.699 pretty much the same thing, 01:08:54.199 --> 01:08:54.739 so, 01:08:55.260 --> 01:08:57.979 I'm not going to beat myself up for it, 01:08:58.220 --> 01:08:58.539 you know, 01:08:58.579 --> 01:08:59.180 I'm just not, 01:08:59.180 --> 01:08:59.940 I want to know, 01:09:00.039 --> 01:09:01.039 I want the word in me, 01:09:01.940 --> 01:09:05.960 but I want the meaning in me, 01:09:06.140 --> 01:09:08.560 even more than the individual words in me, 01:09:08.600 --> 01:09:09.360 individual words, 01:09:09.480 --> 01:09:09.920 believe me, 01:09:10.000 --> 01:09:11.539 I am an individual word person, 01:09:11.860 --> 01:09:12.920 they are really important, 01:09:13.320 --> 01:09:13.680 so, 01:09:13.820 --> 01:09:15.560 not saying don't pay attention to the words, 01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:16.520 just get the idea, 01:09:17.659 --> 01:09:17.980 you know, 01:09:17.979 --> 01:09:19.299 that's, 01:09:19.359 --> 01:09:20.879 that's not what I'm saying at all, 01:09:21.279 --> 01:09:21.519 but, 01:09:22.179 --> 01:09:23.539 but I do want to sort of, 01:09:24.459 --> 01:09:26.379 sort of let go of that, 01:09:26.979 --> 01:09:27.599 I just can't, 01:09:27.599 --> 01:09:28.159 I can't memorize, 01:09:28.239 --> 01:09:29.119 I can never remember, 01:09:29.799 --> 01:09:30.759 I can never remember the, 01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:32.479 I used to call it the address, 01:09:32.579 --> 01:09:33.119 the reference, 01:09:33.859 --> 01:09:35.539 I can never remember that, 01:09:35.679 --> 01:09:36.199 I just like, 01:09:36.279 --> 01:09:37.659 I've just given up on memorization, 01:09:38.399 --> 01:09:38.679 like, 01:09:39.539 --> 01:09:40.479 let's not do that, 01:09:40.839 --> 01:09:41.559 let's not do that, 01:09:41.659 --> 01:09:42.259 let's try, 01:09:43.139 --> 01:09:43.500 and, 01:09:43.500 --> 01:09:44.979 and decide for ourselves, 01:09:45.319 --> 01:09:45.519 I mean, 01:09:45.739 --> 01:09:46.579 some of you may feel like, 01:09:46.659 --> 01:09:47.479 that is really important, 01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:48.339 I really want that, 01:09:48.419 --> 01:09:49.759 I really want to be able to say, 01:09:50.119 --> 01:09:50.959 it's here, 01:09:51.079 --> 01:09:52.259 in Colossians chapter one, 01:09:52.319 --> 01:09:53.439 verses eleven and twelve, 01:09:54.119 --> 01:09:54.299 I, 01:09:54.439 --> 01:09:54.959 I really want, 01:09:55.039 --> 01:09:55.379 and then, 01:09:55.619 --> 01:09:56.299 go for it, 01:09:56.339 --> 01:09:57.659 that's important to you, 01:09:58.119 --> 01:09:59.439 in a way that it might not be, 01:09:59.439 --> 01:10:00.779 as important to me, 01:10:01.319 --> 01:10:01.559 now, 01:10:01.639 --> 01:10:02.979 I remember it's in Colossians, 01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:03.519 because, 01:10:04.199 --> 01:10:06.179 because I remember the context, 01:10:06.179 --> 01:10:07.099 out of which I, 01:10:07.479 --> 01:10:08.639 grabbed hold of it, 01:10:08.899 --> 01:10:09.479 so to speak, 01:10:09.539 --> 01:10:10.139 in my heart, 01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:10.699 in my mind, 01:10:11.299 --> 01:10:11.519 but, 01:10:11.819 --> 01:10:14.059 I'm, 01:10:14.139 --> 01:10:14.979 but I may not remember, 01:10:15.099 --> 01:10:16.039 it's eleven and twelve, 01:10:16.539 --> 01:10:16.759 a, 01:10:16.760 --> 01:10:18.880 the verse goes on, 01:10:19.440 --> 01:10:21.800 so, 01:10:22.119 --> 01:10:23.720 that's most of what I want to say, 01:10:23.780 --> 01:10:24.619 about memorization, 01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:25.840 I'm not a huge, 01:10:25.840 --> 01:10:26.880 memorizer, 01:10:27.060 --> 01:10:28.000 but I've become, 01:10:28.180 --> 01:10:29.220 much better, 01:10:29.260 --> 01:10:30.340 as I recognize it, 01:10:30.380 --> 01:10:31.840 the verses that I prayed, 01:10:32.000 --> 01:10:32.980 every day, 01:10:33.980 --> 01:10:34.659 I memorized, 01:10:35.020 --> 01:10:35.920 without trying, 01:10:36.039 --> 01:10:36.800 I didn't set out, 01:10:36.880 --> 01:10:37.360 to memorize, 01:10:38.159 --> 01:10:38.480 but, 01:10:38.880 --> 01:10:40.079 they're there in my head, 01:10:40.119 --> 01:10:40.659 in my heart, 01:10:41.400 --> 01:10:41.860 and, 01:10:41.859 --> 01:10:42.579 and, 01:10:42.579 --> 01:10:43.359 and they're part of me, 01:10:43.439 --> 01:10:44.460 because I've prayed them, 01:10:44.539 --> 01:10:45.979 because I've meditated on them, 01:10:46.299 --> 01:10:47.000 because I've, 01:10:47.119 --> 01:10:47.899 thought about, 01:10:48.019 --> 01:10:49.019 what all the words mean, 01:10:49.020 --> 01:10:51.140 and so, 01:10:51.520 --> 01:10:52.880 they've become part of me, 01:10:53.200 --> 01:10:53.900 and that, 01:10:54.120 --> 01:10:54.620 for me, 01:10:54.760 --> 01:10:55.440 has made, 01:10:57.140 --> 01:10:57.800 it has lifted, 01:10:57.980 --> 01:10:58.520 some of that, 01:10:59.940 --> 01:11:02.000 I don't know, 01:11:02.140 --> 01:11:03.080 that perfectionism, 01:11:03.140 --> 01:11:03.520 I think, 01:11:03.660 --> 01:11:04.080 off of, 01:11:04.080 --> 01:11:04.780 off of me, 01:11:04.900 --> 01:11:06.040 I was going to say legalism, 01:11:06.100 --> 01:11:06.840 but it's not legalism, 01:11:06.920 --> 01:11:07.300 but it's just, 01:11:07.420 --> 01:11:08.680 that perfection, 01:11:09.060 --> 01:11:09.900 is tendency, 01:11:10.320 --> 01:11:10.500 like, 01:11:10.500 --> 01:11:11.279 if I can't do it, 01:11:11.300 --> 01:11:12.159 100% right, 01:11:12.239 --> 01:11:12.739 every time, 01:11:13.500 --> 01:11:14.100 it's just not, 01:11:14.260 --> 01:11:14.920 it's ridiculous, 01:11:15.100 --> 01:11:15.760 I can't do this, 01:11:16.359 --> 01:11:17.760 so, 01:11:18.739 --> 01:11:19.039 you know, 01:11:19.100 --> 01:11:19.819 that's really, 01:11:20.020 --> 01:11:21.619 what I want to leave you with, 01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:23.260 for, 01:11:23.260 --> 01:11:24.300 memorization, 01:11:24.979 --> 01:11:26.079 and then just this, 01:11:26.140 --> 01:11:27.119 which I said before, 01:11:30.260 --> 01:11:30.680 it, 01:11:31.699 --> 01:11:32.539 the meditation, 01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:33.340 and the memorization, 01:11:33.479 --> 01:11:33.920 go together, 01:11:34.739 --> 01:11:35.979 and, 01:11:36.640 --> 01:11:37.300 it doesn't mean, 01:11:37.359 --> 01:11:38.159 you have to memorize, 01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:38.840 every verse, 01:11:38.899 --> 01:11:39.720 you meditate on, 01:11:39.720 --> 01:11:41.940 but you're going to find it, 01:11:42.020 --> 01:11:42.980 easier, 01:11:43.500 --> 01:11:45.240 to memorize a verse, 01:11:45.300 --> 01:11:46.340 you've meditated on, 01:11:47.000 --> 01:11:49.180 in all likelihood, 01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:50.100 you know, 01:11:50.180 --> 01:11:50.300 and, 01:11:50.320 --> 01:11:51.060 and different people, 01:11:51.140 --> 01:11:51.760 have different brains, 01:11:51.820 --> 01:11:53.060 and I totally recognize that, 01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:53.920 and I don't understand, 01:11:54.039 --> 01:11:54.940 everyone else's brain, 01:11:55.119 --> 01:11:55.300 so, 01:11:56.100 --> 01:11:56.340 you know, 01:11:56.400 --> 01:11:56.659 this, 01:11:56.800 --> 01:11:58.140 this sounds like nonsense to you, 01:11:58.240 --> 01:11:58.380 just, 01:11:58.539 --> 01:11:59.000 that's nonsense, 01:11:59.260 --> 01:11:59.820 leave it, 01:11:59.820 --> 01:12:00.220 but, 01:12:02.220 --> 01:12:02.659 yeah, 01:12:03.020 --> 01:12:03.480 anyway, 01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:06.460 so, 01:12:07.460 --> 01:12:08.940 yeah, 01:12:08.939 --> 01:12:10.079 I had hoped to do, 01:12:10.479 --> 01:12:10.500 I, 01:12:10.579 --> 01:12:10.699 well, 01:12:10.759 --> 01:12:11.000 I guess, 01:12:11.079 --> 01:12:11.979 I guess we did what, 01:12:12.379 --> 01:12:13.239 what I wanted to do, 01:12:13.319 --> 01:12:14.239 I was going to give you your, 01:12:14.559 --> 01:12:15.460 I was going to give you, 01:12:15.539 --> 01:12:16.219 as homework, 01:12:16.779 --> 01:12:18.199 if we had finished the first, 01:12:18.399 --> 01:12:18.599 oh yeah, 01:12:18.619 --> 01:12:19.879 I was going to do a couple other things, 01:12:19.939 --> 01:12:21.579 I was going to have you find 15 insights, 01:12:21.579 --> 01:12:22.019 out of, 01:12:22.779 --> 01:12:23.859 the Colossians verse, 01:12:24.719 --> 01:12:25.419 put it back up there, 01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:27.579 I bet that would be a piece of cake, 01:12:27.659 --> 01:12:28.699 I think that's a low number, 01:12:28.799 --> 01:12:29.379 for this verse, 01:12:29.380 --> 01:12:31.180 we already came up with how many, 01:12:32.119 --> 01:12:33.800 twice that, 01:12:34.800 --> 01:12:37.239 and, 01:12:37.600 --> 01:12:39.619 and maybe, 01:12:39.940 --> 01:12:40.279 you know, 01:12:40.359 --> 01:12:40.859 go home, 01:12:40.980 --> 01:12:41.779 what did I tell you to do, 01:12:41.859 --> 01:12:43.159 go through the whole rest of the verse, 01:12:43.220 --> 01:12:43.640 like that, 01:12:43.739 --> 01:12:44.779 emphasizing one word, 01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:46.220 and thinking about that word, 01:12:46.460 --> 01:12:48.199 and how it relates to the words around it, 01:12:48.680 --> 01:12:50.779 and maybe rewrite the verse, 01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:51.600 in your own words, 01:12:52.600 --> 01:12:54.159 and again, 01:12:54.199 --> 01:12:54.920 that's hard for me, 01:12:54.920 --> 01:12:56.400 because I do glom onto words, 01:12:56.399 --> 01:12:56.799 like, 01:12:57.559 --> 01:13:00.179 but it helps you synthesize it, 01:13:00.759 --> 01:13:01.199 so, 01:13:01.719 --> 01:13:03.679 that's what I wanted to give you, 01:13:03.759 --> 01:13:04.859 I wanted to give you a bunch of tools, 01:13:05.420 --> 01:13:06.599 to digging into scripture, 01:13:07.379 --> 01:13:08.699 I want to encourage you, 01:13:08.979 --> 01:13:10.000 that it's not, 01:13:11.420 --> 01:13:13.179 inaccessible to any of us, 01:13:13.659 --> 01:13:14.420 we can do, 01:13:14.899 --> 01:13:15.479 this stuff, 01:13:16.379 --> 01:13:18.079 I want to encourage you, 01:13:18.159 --> 01:13:19.399 that it doesn't have to take, 01:13:19.759 --> 01:13:20.039 you know, 01:13:20.079 --> 01:13:20.939 an extra hour, 01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:22.099 in your devotional time, 01:13:22.299 --> 01:13:23.319 not at all, 01:13:23.699 --> 01:13:24.899 I want to encourage you, 01:13:24.939 --> 01:13:25.819 to do it every day, 01:13:26.399 --> 01:13:28.439 and confessions, 01:13:28.579 --> 01:13:29.859 I don't do it every day, 01:13:30.039 --> 01:13:30.339 all right, 01:13:30.420 --> 01:13:31.500 but it's a goal, 01:13:32.119 --> 01:13:32.839 and it's an ideal, 01:13:33.519 --> 01:13:34.439 and sometimes, 01:13:34.559 --> 01:13:35.420 I have to remind myself, 01:13:35.559 --> 01:13:35.899 I need to, 01:13:36.019 --> 01:13:36.339 you know, 01:13:36.559 --> 01:13:37.259 I need to really, 01:13:37.599 --> 01:13:38.500 sit with this verse, 01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:41.099 so yeah, 01:13:41.339 --> 01:13:43.439 so I will take any questions, 01:13:44.099 --> 01:13:44.619 we should, 01:13:44.779 --> 01:13:46.259 probably end soon, 01:13:47.279 --> 01:13:47.500 but, 01:13:48.219 --> 01:13:48.519 Elizabeth. 01:13:48.519 --> 01:13:49.519 I have a question, 01:13:50.719 --> 01:13:51.119 what, 01:13:51.599 --> 01:13:51.879 like, 01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:53.159 I'm just reading the Bible, 01:13:53.460 --> 01:13:54.500 and I do read the Bible, 01:13:54.659 --> 01:13:55.059 almost every, 01:13:55.179 --> 01:13:55.339 like, 01:13:55.340 --> 01:13:55.819 in the morning, 01:13:55.920 --> 01:13:56.600 but I don't, 01:13:56.680 --> 01:13:57.579 I don't necessarily, 01:13:57.900 --> 01:13:58.720 have a plan, 01:13:59.100 --> 01:13:59.300 yep, 01:13:59.420 --> 01:14:00.340 can you recommend, 01:14:00.699 --> 01:14:02.039 or read through the Bible, 01:14:02.360 --> 01:14:02.760 in a year, 01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:03.180 a plan, 01:14:03.260 --> 01:14:03.699 or something, 01:14:04.020 --> 01:14:04.340 yeah, 01:14:04.460 --> 01:14:05.000 is that the one, 01:14:05.100 --> 01:14:05.199 or, 01:14:05.319 --> 01:14:05.659 yeah, 01:14:05.900 --> 01:14:06.940 I can recommend a bunch, 01:14:07.000 --> 01:14:08.720 we actually talked about this last week, 01:14:08.980 --> 01:14:09.880 so if you go back, 01:14:09.920 --> 01:14:10.619 and listen to it, 01:14:10.840 --> 01:14:11.119 okay, 01:14:11.239 --> 01:14:12.680 you will hear what I think about plans, 01:14:12.739 --> 01:14:13.319 and some of that, 01:14:13.480 --> 01:14:14.920 some of that kind of stuff, 01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:18.279 and I don't think I have one with me, 01:14:18.340 --> 01:14:19.159 but I had a handout, 01:14:19.380 --> 01:14:20.960 that included links to some plans, 01:14:21.300 --> 01:14:21.800 so I can, 01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:22.840 I can email that to you, 01:14:22.920 --> 01:14:23.300 if you'd like, 01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:24.119 yeah, 01:14:24.940 --> 01:14:25.980 yeah, 01:14:26.140 --> 01:14:26.539 that means, 01:14:26.760 --> 01:14:27.039 you know, 01:14:27.880 --> 01:14:29.600 if you just Google Bible reading plan, 01:14:29.699 --> 01:14:30.760 you'll get a million of them, 01:14:31.260 --> 01:14:31.420 and, 01:14:31.659 --> 01:14:34.279 and you can just pick, 01:14:34.460 --> 01:14:34.800 I mean, 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:35.180 there, 01:14:35.319 --> 01:14:36.359 there are a lot of different ways, 01:14:36.440 --> 01:14:36.739 to do it, 01:14:36.739 --> 01:14:37.899 and that'll make your advice, 01:14:38.099 --> 01:14:38.960 all the more helpful, 01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:39.880 if you're talking about it, 01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:40.219 yes, 01:14:40.340 --> 01:14:40.880 it's true, 01:14:41.159 --> 01:14:41.679 it's true, 01:14:41.899 --> 01:14:42.319 yep, 01:14:42.719 --> 01:14:43.699 yep, 01:14:44.500 --> 01:14:46.399 anyone else, 01:14:47.519 --> 01:14:49.219 Ralph, 01:14:49.420 --> 01:14:50.739 I just have a comment, 01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:52.099 it's sort of stood out, 01:14:53.059 --> 01:14:54.460 it's sort of an alternate, 01:14:54.719 --> 01:14:55.639 on this method, 01:14:55.760 --> 01:14:57.399 of going word by word, 01:14:57.539 --> 01:14:58.619 with emphasis, 01:14:59.619 --> 01:15:01.319 so I saw a, 01:15:01.319 --> 01:15:02.760 an opera recently, 01:15:03.219 --> 01:15:04.639 and my housemate, 01:15:04.699 --> 01:15:05.460 was in the opera, 01:15:05.460 --> 01:15:07.100 and during times, 01:15:07.220 --> 01:15:08.319 when he didn't have, 01:15:08.439 --> 01:15:10.060 a speaking, 01:15:10.159 --> 01:15:10.939 or singing part, 01:15:11.560 --> 01:15:12.340 he actually, 01:15:12.659 --> 01:15:14.180 was still on stage, 01:15:14.420 --> 01:15:14.680 and, 01:15:15.140 --> 01:15:17.480 had some wonderful gestures, 01:15:17.880 --> 01:15:18.899 that I noticed, 01:15:18.960 --> 01:15:19.260 yeah, 01:15:19.859 --> 01:15:20.600 and so, 01:15:21.020 --> 01:15:22.140 when I saw the, 01:15:22.140 --> 01:15:23.380 differing emphasis, 01:15:23.640 --> 01:15:24.060 I realized, 01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:24.420 well, 01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:26.199 should we put emojis, 01:15:26.300 --> 01:15:27.980 after each one, 01:15:28.340 --> 01:15:29.939 but, 01:15:30.220 --> 01:15:31.640 instead of that, 01:15:31.980 --> 01:15:32.199 you know, 01:15:32.199 --> 01:15:32.800 I was thinking, 01:15:33.060 --> 01:15:34.199 there, 01:15:34.319 --> 01:15:34.920 there might be, 01:15:34.920 --> 01:15:35.940 a different audience, 01:15:36.359 --> 01:15:36.480 to, 01:15:36.720 --> 01:15:37.420 we sometimes, 01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:38.239 see ourselves, 01:15:38.720 --> 01:15:39.460 in others, 01:15:39.619 --> 01:15:39.920 so, 01:15:40.079 --> 01:15:41.079 if we think of, 01:15:41.319 --> 01:15:41.500 well, 01:15:41.619 --> 01:15:42.460 is this a verse, 01:15:42.600 --> 01:15:43.800 that I should share, 01:15:43.980 --> 01:15:45.899 to someone else, 01:15:46.020 --> 01:15:47.680 for a particular problem, 01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:49.300 how would, 01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:50.239 they, 01:15:50.399 --> 01:15:51.060 or how might, 01:15:51.600 --> 01:15:52.560 some of the original, 01:15:52.699 --> 01:15:53.279 hearers, 01:15:53.440 --> 01:15:54.199 have responded, 01:15:54.739 --> 01:15:56.500 to different parts, 01:15:56.500 --> 01:15:58.060 what's being said, 01:15:58.279 --> 01:15:58.479 yeah, 01:15:58.579 --> 01:15:58.939 yeah, 01:15:58.939 --> 01:15:59.000 yeah, 01:15:59.000 --> 01:15:59.060 yeah, 01:15:59.060 --> 01:15:59.079 yeah, 01:15:59.079 --> 01:15:59.100 yeah, 01:15:59.100 --> 01:15:59.880 and I, 01:15:59.880 --> 01:16:00.500 I just thought, 01:16:00.619 --> 01:16:01.520 that might be, 01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:02.319 yeah, 01:16:02.420 --> 01:16:02.939 because, 01:16:03.180 --> 01:16:03.460 we do, 01:16:03.880 --> 01:16:05.079 continue to learn, 01:16:05.180 --> 01:16:05.760 about ourselves, 01:16:05.939 --> 01:16:06.680 and seeing others, 01:16:06.800 --> 01:16:06.939 but, 01:16:07.159 --> 01:16:07.720 we also have, 01:16:07.819 --> 01:16:08.659 a ready application, 01:16:08.880 --> 01:16:09.340 if we're thinking, 01:16:09.500 --> 01:16:10.680 about encouraging, 01:16:10.680 --> 01:16:10.900 yeah, 01:16:10.980 --> 01:16:11.400 exactly, 01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:12.100 yeah, 01:16:12.100 --> 01:16:13.020 that's great, 01:16:14.020 --> 01:16:14.619 yeah, 01:16:14.800 --> 01:16:15.060 I mean, 01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:16.000 if, 01:16:16.180 --> 01:16:16.860 you could go, 01:16:16.940 --> 01:16:17.600 you could go home, 01:16:17.720 --> 01:16:18.840 and write this verse out, 01:16:18.900 --> 01:16:19.460 in emojis, 01:16:19.720 --> 01:16:19.880 like, 01:16:20.020 --> 01:16:20.680 wouldn't that be cool, 01:16:21.539 --> 01:16:21.840 if it, 01:16:21.920 --> 01:16:22.159 you know, 01:16:22.240 --> 01:16:22.900 and if you're someone, 01:16:22.980 --> 01:16:23.260 who like, 01:16:23.500 --> 01:16:23.940 can't stand, 01:16:24.039 --> 01:16:24.720 don't do it, 01:16:24.760 --> 01:16:24.900 but, 01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:25.200 you know, 01:16:25.680 --> 01:16:26.560 it might be fun, 01:16:26.600 --> 01:16:27.380 it might make you think, 01:16:27.460 --> 01:16:27.640 like, 01:16:27.740 --> 01:16:28.079 wait, 01:16:28.200 --> 01:16:28.640 what can I, 01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:29.960 what emoji, 01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:30.400 could I use, 01:16:30.460 --> 01:16:31.500 to represent this, 01:16:31.740 --> 01:16:32.060 Laura, 01:16:32.420 --> 01:16:32.820 yeah, 01:16:32.819 --> 01:16:35.000 there we go, 01:16:35.000 --> 01:16:35.439 yeah, 01:16:35.439 --> 01:16:37.000 there we go, 01:16:37.000 --> 01:16:38.460 along the lines, 01:16:38.679 --> 01:16:39.599 of fun and funny, 01:16:40.559 --> 01:16:41.639 I have three daughters, 01:16:41.859 --> 01:16:42.679 and when they were growing up, 01:16:42.719 --> 01:16:43.799 we do a lot of memorization, 01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:44.559 and one of the things, 01:16:44.659 --> 01:16:45.139 that we found, 01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:46.399 helpful, 01:16:46.519 --> 01:16:47.599 because it was fun and funny, 01:16:47.699 --> 01:16:48.859 is just putting it to music, 01:16:49.139 --> 01:16:50.460 and then sometimes, 01:16:50.779 --> 01:16:51.840 then they didn't even have, 01:16:51.899 --> 01:16:53.000 hand motions too, 01:16:53.319 --> 01:16:53.699 and, 01:16:54.139 --> 01:16:54.519 like, 01:16:54.639 --> 01:16:55.679 Psalm 19, 01:16:55.779 --> 01:16:56.259 verse 11, 01:16:56.439 --> 01:16:56.599 you know, 01:16:56.619 --> 01:16:56.920 we say, 01:16:57.960 --> 01:16:58.859 thy word have I, 01:16:59.059 --> 01:17:00.960 I've hidden thy word in my heart, 01:17:01.399 --> 01:17:01.679 thump, 01:17:01.819 --> 01:17:02.079 thump, 01:17:02.239 --> 01:17:02.500 thump, 01:17:02.819 --> 01:17:04.380 that I might not sin against thee, 01:17:04.519 --> 01:17:04.920 and you know, 01:17:04.960 --> 01:17:06.179 they laugh, 01:17:06.399 --> 01:17:07.279 and they get it, 01:17:07.340 --> 01:17:07.960 they remember it, 01:17:07.979 --> 01:17:09.059 you can probably stop them now, 01:17:09.119 --> 01:17:09.559 on the street, 01:17:09.739 --> 01:17:10.479 and thump, 01:17:10.539 --> 01:17:10.699 thump, 01:17:10.799 --> 01:17:10.979 thump, 01:17:11.059 --> 01:17:11.139 and, 01:17:11.279 --> 01:17:11.460 oh, 01:17:11.539 --> 01:17:12.279 Psalm 119, 01:17:12.460 --> 01:17:12.979 and something like that, 01:17:13.119 --> 01:17:13.359 yeah, 01:17:13.359 --> 01:17:14.599 yeah, 01:17:14.599 --> 01:17:14.659 yeah, 01:17:14.819 --> 01:17:15.319 yeah, 01:17:15.319 --> 01:17:15.500 yeah, 01:17:15.500 --> 01:17:16.139 yeah, 01:17:16.139 --> 01:17:16.319 yeah, 01:17:16.319 --> 01:17:16.500 yes, 01:17:16.500 --> 01:17:17.079 yes, 01:17:17.079 --> 01:17:17.880 and when, 01:17:17.979 --> 01:17:19.619 as Ralph was talking about his friend, 01:17:19.719 --> 01:17:20.159 in the opera, 01:17:20.319 --> 01:17:20.500 like, 01:17:20.759 --> 01:17:20.899 yeah, 01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:21.599 hand motions, 01:17:21.779 --> 01:17:21.840 like, 01:17:21.939 --> 01:17:23.039 physical stuff, 01:17:23.639 --> 01:17:24.159 many of us are, 01:17:24.399 --> 01:17:24.579 many, 01:17:24.739 --> 01:17:25.439 very physical, 01:17:25.759 --> 01:17:26.920 and that would really be helpful, 01:17:27.559 --> 01:17:27.880 um, 01:17:28.840 --> 01:17:29.159 you know, 01:17:29.199 --> 01:17:29.500 I don't, 01:17:29.619 --> 01:17:29.719 I, 01:17:30.059 --> 01:17:30.340 you know, 01:17:30.340 --> 01:17:32.560 I'm not especially like that, 01:17:32.640 --> 01:17:32.800 but, 01:17:33.199 --> 01:17:34.360 this feeds into, 01:17:34.480 --> 01:17:34.699 okay, 01:17:34.840 --> 01:17:35.039 so, 01:17:35.159 --> 01:17:36.819 Gartner's eight intelligences, 01:17:37.060 --> 01:17:40.659 which actually go into learning styles of people, 01:17:41.039 --> 01:17:42.940 and you touched on several of them, 01:17:42.980 --> 01:17:43.760 visual learning, 01:17:43.880 --> 01:17:44.760 auditory learning, 01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:45.500 um, 01:17:45.780 --> 01:17:45.920 we, 01:17:46.039 --> 01:17:47.460 there is a physical learning, 01:17:47.579 --> 01:17:48.940 there's a creative learning, 01:17:48.940 --> 01:17:52.680 and it just reinforces what you've got here, 01:17:52.820 --> 01:17:52.920 so, 01:17:53.079 --> 01:17:53.239 yeah, 01:17:53.239 --> 01:17:55.680 understanding what your learning style is, 01:17:55.680 --> 01:17:57.060 is going to be really helpful, 01:17:57.060 --> 01:17:57.360 yep, 01:17:57.680 --> 01:17:57.960 in, 01:17:57.960 --> 01:17:58.380 in, 01:17:58.380 --> 01:17:59.840 doing this sort of thing, 01:18:00.060 --> 01:18:00.239 yep, 01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:01.500 absolutely, 01:18:02.380 --> 01:18:02.960 yeah, 01:18:02.960 --> 01:18:03.880 I want to thank you too, 01:18:04.020 --> 01:18:04.199 that, 01:18:05.140 --> 01:18:07.360 what we did orally here, 01:18:07.980 --> 01:18:08.820 was mind mapping, 01:18:08.960 --> 01:18:10.000 we just didn't draw the lines, 01:18:10.220 --> 01:18:10.440 right, 01:18:10.699 --> 01:18:11.159 right, 01:18:11.480 --> 01:18:12.500 yeah, 01:18:13.020 --> 01:18:13.260 yeah, 01:18:13.380 --> 01:18:14.020 that's what it is, 01:18:14.140 --> 01:18:14.280 right, 01:18:14.340 --> 01:18:14.600 Amos, 01:18:14.760 --> 01:18:15.619 um, 01:18:17.079 --> 01:18:17.440 I, 01:18:18.100 --> 01:18:18.420 there's, 01:18:18.460 --> 01:18:19.020 there's a, 01:18:19.420 --> 01:18:20.300 uh, 01:18:20.940 --> 01:18:21.560 what do we call it, 01:18:21.579 --> 01:18:22.460 a series of, 01:18:22.520 --> 01:18:23.140 of music, 01:18:23.340 --> 01:18:24.159 music albums, 01:18:24.980 --> 01:18:26.119 Seeds Family Worship, 01:18:26.860 --> 01:18:28.940 somebody recommended it to us years ago, 01:18:29.619 --> 01:18:30.940 and each album, 01:18:31.539 --> 01:18:32.500 each, 01:18:32.500 --> 01:18:35.220 each song is just one verse, 01:18:35.880 --> 01:18:36.920 and they just sing it, 01:18:37.100 --> 01:18:37.140 your, 01:18:37.280 --> 01:18:38.460 your comment reminded me, 01:18:38.800 --> 01:18:38.940 yep, 01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:41.260 in a contemporary style, 01:18:41.600 --> 01:18:44.480 such that we've found it to be perfect for like, 01:18:44.479 --> 01:18:46.159 road trips and in the car and such, 01:18:46.279 --> 01:18:46.719 because, 01:18:46.979 --> 01:18:47.799 uh, 01:18:47.799 --> 01:18:48.139 and it, 01:18:48.139 --> 01:18:49.459 it's something that it's not, 01:18:49.659 --> 01:18:50.839 it's for children, 01:18:51.419 --> 01:18:52.639 but it really is, 01:18:52.759 --> 01:18:53.239 I've, 01:18:53.239 --> 01:18:55.579 really appreciated the, 01:18:56.639 --> 01:18:57.079 because it's, 01:18:57.079 --> 01:18:57.799 it's meditative, 01:18:57.959 --> 01:18:58.259 like it, 01:18:58.459 --> 01:18:59.179 they don't just, 01:18:59.439 --> 01:18:59.559 it, 01:18:59.560 --> 01:19:02.940 it's not like verse and then chorus style, 01:19:03.240 --> 01:19:03.500 it's, 01:19:03.539 --> 01:19:05.280 it's really just take the words, 01:19:05.900 --> 01:19:06.880 kind of bit by bit, 01:19:06.940 --> 01:19:09.180 and sometimes they'll shuffle some of the phrases, 01:19:09.720 --> 01:19:10.880 and then of course, 01:19:11.220 --> 01:19:11.420 you know, 01:19:11.440 --> 01:19:11.520 they, 01:19:11.620 --> 01:19:12.260 sometimes they add, 01:19:12.360 --> 01:19:12.860 it's not, 01:19:13.039 --> 01:19:13.680 you don't see, 01:19:13.960 --> 01:19:14.140 you know, 01:19:14.140 --> 01:19:14.800 it's just music, 01:19:14.800 --> 01:19:15.460 yeah, 01:19:15.579 --> 01:19:17.380 but it's not like they're doing hand motions, 01:19:17.579 --> 01:19:17.800 but they're, 01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:19.159 but they're doing things with the phrases, 01:19:19.320 --> 01:19:19.659 so anyway, 01:19:19.779 --> 01:19:20.060 it's, 01:19:20.199 --> 01:19:20.380 yeah, 01:19:20.380 --> 01:19:20.520 yeah, 01:19:20.520 --> 01:19:20.779 if, 01:19:21.079 --> 01:19:22.220 if anybody is interested in that, 01:19:22.220 --> 01:19:22.640 is that right now, 01:19:22.739 --> 01:19:23.440 is that right now, 01:19:23.560 --> 01:19:23.760 yeah, 01:19:24.699 --> 01:19:25.260 possibly, 01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:25.779 I, 01:19:25.779 --> 01:19:26.360 I wouldn't know, 01:19:26.539 --> 01:19:27.699 I feel like I saw it, 01:19:28.100 --> 01:19:28.680 but they've got, 01:19:29.100 --> 01:19:31.619 we have at least half a dozen of the albums, 01:19:31.779 --> 01:19:32.980 and those are kind of the favorites, 01:19:33.020 --> 01:19:34.159 for our road trips, 01:19:34.360 --> 01:19:34.460 and, 01:19:34.880 --> 01:19:35.440 yeah, 01:19:36.180 --> 01:19:36.860 yeah, 01:19:36.900 --> 01:19:37.300 that's great, 01:19:37.380 --> 01:19:39.940 and also understand that music connects both, 01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:40.440 half of your, 01:19:40.739 --> 01:19:42.020 both halves of your brain, 01:19:42.020 --> 01:19:45.460 so that you're actually getting in there a little bit better, 01:19:45.880 --> 01:19:46.240 mm-hmm, 01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:47.960 good, 01:19:48.360 --> 01:19:48.720 well, 01:19:48.800 --> 01:19:49.140 we should, 01:19:49.220 --> 01:19:50.440 we should stop, 01:19:50.700 --> 01:19:51.740 and give time for, 01:19:52.860 --> 01:19:53.060 well, 01:19:53.160 --> 01:19:54.720 coffee hour between the services, 01:19:55.320 --> 01:19:57.900 yeah, 01:19:58.140 --> 01:19:58.960 so, 01:19:59.060 --> 01:20:00.600 let me just close briefly in prayer, 01:20:01.200 --> 01:20:02.780 Father, 01:20:02.920 --> 01:20:03.160 again, 01:20:03.220 --> 01:20:04.160 we thank you for your word, 01:20:04.260 --> 01:20:05.640 we thank you for the richness of it, 01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:06.500 we thank you, 01:20:06.860 --> 01:20:07.580 Lord, 01:20:07.680 --> 01:20:08.280 that you, 01:20:08.940 --> 01:20:11.060 you can strengthen us, 01:20:11.060 --> 01:20:13.180 with all power, 01:20:13.380 --> 01:20:15.020 according to your glorious might, 01:20:15.520 --> 01:20:15.780 Lord, 01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:17.000 how we thank you that, 01:20:17.640 --> 01:20:19.500 that you have created us in, 01:20:19.539 --> 01:20:19.920 in, 01:20:21.080 --> 01:20:22.200 diverse ways, 01:20:22.280 --> 01:20:24.360 and we have so many ways to learn, 01:20:24.520 --> 01:20:25.700 so many ways to grow, 01:20:25.800 --> 01:20:26.740 and so many ways to, 01:20:27.060 --> 01:20:28.039 encourage one another, 01:20:28.120 --> 01:20:29.400 we pray that we would do that, 01:20:30.000 --> 01:20:30.920 that we would, 01:20:31.060 --> 01:20:34.100 just seek you more and more, 01:20:34.320 --> 01:20:34.920 in your word, 01:20:35.620 --> 01:20:36.120 and, 01:20:36.340 --> 01:20:38.160 thank you for being with us, 01:20:38.280 --> 01:20:39.020 in Jesus name, 01:20:39.420 --> 01:20:39.640 amen. 01:20:39.640 --> 01:20:53.860 Thank you.